Weed for All?

As I pondered what would be my first big post on the blog one interesting story that was recently in the news kept hounding me.  As Epilepsy Alliance of Utah takes no position on the use of medical marijuana at this time its interesting to note that in Pleasant Grove, Utah the mother of an boy who happens to have intractable epilepsy is trying to gain support for the use of medical marijuana.  She explains that only two forms of treatment have worked for her son in the past; pharmaceuticals and marijuana.  Everyone with epilepsy knows that while pharmaceuticals can give you your life back from the constant worry of when a seizure will strike and the days of work to rebuild what you lost; they come with bad side effects that can ravage your body and sadly the good doesn't last as long as the bad.  So alternatively the medical community has answered this call with the vagal nerve stimulator and biofeedback but for those who are intractable these interventions don't help.  The inability to find a consistent treatment for her sons epilepsy is what led this Pleasant Grove mother to marijuana and she is happily surprised.  
What might surprise you more is that this treatment is not new.  I as a medical professional working in epilepsy for the past two years have known a few patients that report cannabis as their cure all.  The science seems to be behind this also as Dr. Sanjay Gupta explained on CNN a few weeks ago.  Marijuana relaxes the central nervous system and if, as believed, stress causes most seizures then cannabis is the answer.  And so this Mormon mother is asking for support in her cause to ask the Utah state legislature to approve the use of medical marijuana.
I would like to pose this to those of you with epilepsy and family... 
Have you used marijuana as a treatment for seizures and would you support a bill in the Utah state legislature to legalize medical marijuana?