A group of Utah epilepsy patients report cannabis oil use is scaling back their seizures, though perhaps not to the extent lawmakers anticipated when they passed a 2014 bill legalizing the substance for this specific use.
The recent University of Utah survey found 73 percent of patients reported a noticeable reduction in seizures after taking the hemp extract along with other seizure-reducing medication.
One-fifth of respondents said their seizures were almost completely controlled, and the rest said they’d noticed either a somewhat or slight decrease in the number of seizures due to the oil. About 30 percent reported the severity of their seizures had dramatically decreased.