Marijuana supporters go to battle against prosecutors with ‘reefer madness’

In 2013, the Welton family of Mesa, Arizona finally found the right treatment for their 5-year-old son, Zander, who experienced violent seizures from the time he was a baby: medical marijuana extract. When Zander began taking the medicine, the number of seizures he had dropped drastically. He was finally able to sleep soundly at night and could hold a fork on his own.

Then, just as Zander’s health improved, Maricopa County’s top prosecutor, Bill Montgomery (R) threatened to prosecute the Welton family. The medical marijuana law passed in 2010 in Arizona, he said, did not include extracts. Fearing prosecution, Zander’s parents stopped the treatment, and the boy’s health regressed almost immediately....
https://thinkprogress.org/reefer-madness-2016-f8c88e986819#.qo3yo1gv5