They’d argued about that very thing earlier in the
day. Haleigh’s behalf by Ride to Give, a cycling non-
profit that benefits medically fragile children.
Janea had read good things about a cannabis oil
that reduced the frequency of convulsions for
patients with seizure disorders. It was high in
cannabidiol
(CBD)
and
low
in
tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which means it
doesn’t induce the psychoactive “high” most
commonly associated with marijuana use.
But Brian didn’t want them to leave Georgia.
He didn’t want to place false hope in some
Colorado weed scheme. And he didn’t want to
take the chance of something happening to
Haleigh while she was so far away from him.
“But we had tried every other thing that every
other doctor had ever suggested, and none of it
had done anything at all,” Janea said. “After that
night, it felt like it was our last resort.”
Brian finally agreed……
That same night, Janea sent an email to State Rep.
Allen Peake (R-Macon), pleading for him to help
change the law in Georgia and legalise medical
marijuana. Thus, began a “really lonely” period of life for
Janea. It was just the two of them. If Haleigh
didn’t sleep, neither did Janea. If Haleigh had a
bad day, so did Janea. There was no relief from
the care-giving duties.
“Brian would come out for a week every month,
then later it became more like once every two
months because he couldn’t find the time to get
off work,” she said. Other than those occasional
visits, Brian’s daily phone calls were Janea’s only
lifeline to an outside world.
But soon the Colorado marijuana community
came to embrace the Coxes, beginning with Jason
Cranford, executive director of Flowering Hope
Foundation.
The
organisation
promotes
accessibility to medical marijuana for those
whom he believes benefit from it, including
sufferers of epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Crohn’s
disease and cancer.
“I answered her that very night to tell her I’d look
into it,” Peake recalled. He did