SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - To cut down the number of debilitating seizures she experiences every day, Ashley Rice has become one of about 100 people participating in an extremely limited medical marijuana program in Utah that allows people with severe epilepsy to travel to other states to obtain cannabis extract oil and use it back home.
Since the 24-year-old Rice started using the oil under the 2014 law, she had had anywhere from three to eight seizures a day, according to her father Doug Rice. At the peak, the West Jordan woman was experiencing up to two dozen seizures a day.
Ashley Rice has epilepsy and Angelman syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects her immune system. The disability means that developmentally, she functions on a level close to a 3-year-old child.
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Since the 24-year-old Rice started using the oil under the 2014 law, she had had anywhere from three to eight seizures a day, according to her father Doug Rice. At the peak, the West Jordan woman was experiencing up to two dozen seizures a day.
Ashley Rice has epilepsy and Angelman syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects her immune system. The disability means that developmentally, she functions on a level close to a 3-year-old child.
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