end the prohibition of marijuana by removing it from the list of controlled substances in the Controlled Substances Act.

We demand that the federal government ends prohibition of marijuana.This is necessary so that medical research can be conducted on marijuana as a viable treatment for many diseases that are not controlled or cured by pharmaceutical medicines.Medically intractable pediatric epilepsy is one disease that has been treated with (high CBD) cannabidiol-rich medical marijuana with positive results.According to the National Institute of Health approximately 30% of people with epilepsy do not respond to the >25 antiepileptic drugs currently used.This means that the seizures persist in spite of treatment with multiple antiepileptic drugs.About 93,000 children in the U.S. have this medically intractable pediatric epilepsy. These children can suffer brain damage from the seizures and the medications.