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The little boy shakes his hands violently to and fro, but the involuntary motion eases within minutes after his mother puts the syrupy, honey-brown oil into his mouth: medicinal marijuana.
Krzysztof is a playful, smiling five-year-old Polish boy with Down’s syndrome. His parents say they owe his life to the medical cannabis oil they began giving him two years ago.
A new law came into force on Tuesday allowing Poles to use stronger medicinal marijuana than the kind authorised so far—but critics say few may see the benefits of it.
In Krzysztof’s case, conventional drugs had failed to ease the more than 200 epileptic seizures a day that left him weak, exhausted and gasping for breath.
“Two years ago we tried medical marijuana as a last resort after everything else had failed to relieve our son’s violent seizures, and he began to improve from the very first day,” Krzysztof’s father, Artur Schewe, told AFP.
“We were overjoyed because just days earlier we had been preparing for our son to die,” said the bearded and bespectacled…
