Last week, nine year-old Anna Conte died after a long battle with a seizure disorder. Anna and her family had been at the center of a successful fight to pass a medical marijuana law in New York. Medical marijuana has dramatically reduced life-threatening seizures in other children with Anna’s condition.
Her family, working with patients and caregivers across New York, persuaded lawmakers, who had been considering legislation for eighteen years, to finally pass a medical marijuana law this June. Unfortunately, this legislation came too late for Anna. New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who signed the …read more