For the first time ever, cannabis oil has been used in a hospital…to save a 2-month-old baby girl.

Last December, Nicole and Ernie Nunez welcomed a beautiful baby girl, Amylea . However, when they brought her home, things quickly went south.

“About a day after we got home from giving birth, she had her first seizure,” Nicole said. “She has a rare form of epilepsy . They don’t know exactly what type it is.”

For two months, the Nunez family desperately tried to treat the little girl's illness. Doctors in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the family is from, were unable to find a cause or cure for little Amylea. So, the family went to Colorado.

Nicole is staying at the hospital in Aurora, while Ernie travels back and forth to care for the couple's other child and to work.

At Children's Hospital in Aurora, doctors continued with a cocktail of drugs in an attempt to stop the horrific seizures, but the drugs are not without side effects.

“The drugs they give her are bad for her liver, so we’re trying to do something different that doesn’t hurt her as much,” Ernie said, explaining why the couple decided to use cannabis oil .

When the family heard about the seemingly miraculous effects of cannabis oil, known as Charlotte's Web , they found hope and arranged to get it for their little girl.

Charlotte's Web is a strain of cannabis named after a little girl, Charlotte Figi, whose life it literally saved. Charlotte had her first seizure at three months old. Over the next few months, she had frequent seizures that lasted two to four hours, and was hospitalized repeatedly.

But her parents found a strain of cannabis that completely reversed their daughter’s suffering. Since then, countless other children have been saved by this amazing plant.

“I fought with the doctors for three weeks trying to get them to give me the OK,” Nicole said. “I’ve been working with the case study team and the neurology team at Children’s, and I’m optimistic.”

In July, doctors finally agreed to allow cannabis oil into the hospital to treat Amylea.

“To be able to get approval to give it to us while she’s in the NICU as a patient…it’s almost like a miracle,” Nicole said. “Because they were completely against it, they were like, ‘No you can’t do that, you have to wait until she’s an outpatient.’”

Even though the doctors gave approval to treat Amylea with the oil, they wouldn't administer it to them personally, so the family did it themselves.

Already in July, when Amylea had only taken a few doses, her parents said that the nurses had noticed a positive change .

According to the family, Amylea is the first and youngest patient to ever receive cannabis oil as a treatment in a hospital.

The importance of using cannabis oil to treat a newborn in a hospital should not go unnoticed. This move effectively illustrates that cannabis is a viable medical option, and its classification by the federal government as a Schedule 1 drug is as absurd as it is immoral.

The Free Thought Project recently reported the findings of a study that showed cannabis oil to be a highly effective treatment for incurable epilepsy.

Of the 261 patients who received CBD treatment, 45% experienced a significant reduction in seizure frequency , and 9% did not have a single seizure in three months. Some children continued to benefit after the trial ended, even a year later.

When the same amazing plant that has cured cancer, saved the lives of epileptic children, and cured countless others is being used in one state's hospital, while being the cause of kidnappings and police imprisonment in another state, something has to be done.

Those who continue to lock people in cages for possessing this plant would be wise to refuse further orders of this kind. If the police want to be on the right side of history, they shouldn't wait for the laws to tell them to stop kidnapping and caging people for a plant, they should just stop doing it.

When ‘doing your job’ violates the rights of non-violent, peaceful people, some of whom simply want to save their children’s lives, it’s time to question the validity of that job.

A GoFundMe campaign for Amylea has been started and is currently active; if you would like to show your support, you can donate.