The Salt Lake Tribune - First Published Nov 12 2014 06:36PM • Last Updated Nov 13 2014 09:12 am
Faces of Cannabis stumps for federal OK for cannabid oil
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Photographer Nichole Montanez is behind the Face of Cannabis project. Montanez was in Salt Lake City, Wednesday November 12, 2014, photographing children who are being treated with cannabis oil.
Public health » The oil is used to treat people with intractable epilepsy, reducing their seizures.
Nichole Montanez is traveling the country photographing children with epilepsy who currently are being treated or are hoping to be treated with cannabid oil. Montanez stopped in Salt Lake City on Wednesday at Hope 4 Children With Epilepsy’s "Faces of Cannabis" project. State lawmakers in 2014 tweaked Utah code, making it legal for people with intractable epilepsy to import a type of cannabid oil shown to reduce seizures. Faces of Cannabis will be used to lobby for a federal bill, HR 5226: Charlotte’s Web Medical Hemp Act, which would remove cannabid oil and therapeutic hemp from the list of controlled substances."