Mom: ‘My daughter died waiting’ for medical cannabis

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – Grace was born a healthy baby girl, but at four months old things changed.

“Her first seizure lasted a grueling 45 minutes,” her mother Becky Witwer said.

Grace was diagnosed with Dravet syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy. One night the seizures were just too much for her little body.

“When I went to bed I found her,” Witwer said.

“She was blue and we had to do CPR. There were no signs of life, but I was just hoping,” her father Richard Witwer said. “It was too…