When he was asked about a recent CNN poll that found him to be the leading Republican presidential candidate for the election, he dismissed his front-runner status as "meaningless. To the governor's chagrin, the conversation turned to another Senate bill -- one that sought to allow registered New Jersey medical marijuana patients to buy cannabis in another state and bring it home. The bill was inspired by Meghan and Brian Wilson -- Brian being the father who had confronted Christie face to face the previous August, lambasting the governor for not allowing medical marijuana access in New Jersey for children.
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Wilson's 2-year-old daughter, Vivian, suffers from Dravet syndrome, a drug-resistant form of epilepsy that certain cannabis strains have proven effective in controlling. It would prove to be an embarrassing TV moment for the future candidate, his hemming and hawing on the subject of medical marijuana later spliced with video of Vivian's seizures. In response to his confrontation with Brian Wilson and the bad press that followed, Christie had signed an expansion of New Jersey's medical marijuana bill that would allow children to be treated with cannabis, but inserted into it the need for additional doctors to sign off on the decision, including a psychiatrist -- an unnecessary roadblock when you're talking about a two-year-old like Vivian Wilson.
In Christie's mind, the medical marijuana movement had already strong-armed him once, and he was clearly displeased that the subject was being brought up again during this first press conference after his landslide re-election victory. Here's what the advocates want: They want legalization of marijuana in New Jersey.
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It will not happen on my watch, ever. I am done expanding the medical marijuana program under any circumstances. I heard the urgency in his voice, and Kelly and I sped to the hospital. Her husband, Rob, took my infant son Rocco to my parents' house for me. The doctors performed tests to see if Sabina was brain dead.
I was hoping they would see a sign. Paula and Phil had made every effort to comply with New Jersey's existing medical marijuana laws, but there were so many doctors to see, so many applications to file, that the process took months -- and Sabina didn't have months. She died waiting for the cannabis tincture that could have alleviated her suffering.
Dravet syndrome, which Sabina Rose had been diagnosed with, is notoriously resistant to traditional medications, but cannabis oil has been shown to radically reduce the frequency of the epileptic seizures that it causes in children. In fact, it was only after CNN host Dr. Sanjay Gupta witnessed cannabis's effects on young Charlotte Figi, another Dravet sufferer being treated with cannabis oil, that he apologized for publicly denying the legitimacy of medical marijuana. Claiming he had not done the proper research, and that he had been duped by years of government propaganda, Gupta is now one of medical marijuana's most vocal supporters.
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There is now a strain that target's Dravet Syndrome, named after the girl who inspired Dr. Gupta's epiphany named, "Charlotte's Web. Overcome with grief, the questions mounted in Paula's mind: Was it my fault? We should have moved, we should have tried harder The doctors let Paula and Phil hold Sabina.
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Rob and Kelly, Sabina's godparents, were there for every excruciating moment. Family members started showing up. Sabina's grandparents said their good-byes. Paula spoke to her daughter. Her daddy held her the whole time. December 2, , at 2: There were no signs of the troubles ahead; in fact, to Paula and Phil, Sabina was a "perfect child" who ate well, slept well and was always smiling.
The holidays were a joy, and on New Year's Day, Sabina sat in her high chair for the first time, an activity she seemed to love.
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Paula returned to her job as a bookkeeper and, as she describes it, "life took on a new normal. On February 6, , Sabina had her first seizure. Paula's parents, who had been watching the child, called her, and she rushed home from work and took Sabina to the emergency room. The doctors told Paula and Phil to keep an eye on Sabina, but that it was probably a one-time thing.
The following day, February 7, Paula found out that she was pregnant with her second child. While not a particularly religious person, Paula looks back at the timing as a sign from a higher power. I know now that I had Rocco to save us. That is exactly what he is doing.
When he is asleep, he looks just like her. Rocco saves us on a daily basis. His sister lives within him. The joy of Rocco's birth was tempered by the fact that Sabina's seizure would not turn out to be, as they had all hoped, an isolated incident. After the first one, Sabina's seizures started increasing in frequency and intensity.
On February 15, the doctors prescribed phenobarbital. On March 10, she was baptized. The following day, Sabina had her most violent seizure yet, and the doctors prescribed Topamax. After another seizure, the phenobarbital was replaced by Keppra. The seizures continued and Sabina was given Onfi, a benzodiazepine in the same family as Xanax. Despite the cycle of seizures, emergency-room visits and new prescriptions, followed by yet more seizures, the Joanas attempted to live a normal life.
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