Dr Alan Shackelford - the doctor who changed the course of medical cannabis history

Imagine being the doctor responsible for prescribing high CBD/ low THC cannabis to Charlotte Figi at a time when very little was still known about CBD's anti-seizure effects in children. That was Dr Shackelford back in 2012, when he was approached by Charlotte's mother Paige. Rather fortuitously, as Dr Shackelford puts it, he had just read Professor Raphael Mechoulam's 1980 ground breaking paper about the anti-epileptic effects of CBD, and despite serious reservations about prescribing canna...