Law allowing treatment with marijuana byproduct renamed for girl who died

MADISON - A Wisconsin law that allows limited use of a marijuana byproduct to treat seizures has been renamed after the young girl who was the face of the proposal died this month. Governor Scott Walker issued a proclamation Wednesday renaming the measure Lydia's Law after 7-year-old Lydia Schaeffer, of Burlington. Full story: WJFW

Add new comment

Warning
Please refrain from adding URLs to unrelated or commercial websites. This site is moderated and comments with inappropriate links are rejected. Thank you for your understanding.

No profane language is allowed! Posts that contain profanity will not be published.

More information about text formats

Plain text

  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
Image CAPTCHA
Enter the characters shown in the image.