Rachel Salmesky, who moved to Colorado in 2013, described how her then-seventeen-month-old daughter, Maggie, suffered from hundreds of seizures a day before finally finding a solution in Charlotte’s Web CBD products.
With Maggie by her side in a wheelchair, Salmesky told legislators at the April 18 Senate Finance Committee hearing that she moved here specifically for the CBD. But under proposed guidelines for a new Senate bill, access to the product could be severely limited by stricter package and dosage limits.
“When we learned of Charlotte’s Web, we had a choice to make: We could give her a chance at life or we could let her die,” Salmesky said. “The truth of the matter is that we will still most likely bury our daughter. However, without access to this reliable, trusted hemp, there’s no doubt that her three younger brothers would never have had the chance to meet her, and this would be an empty wheelchair next to us.”
Senate Bill 23-271 — which is being sponsored by Republican Senator Kevin Van Winkle of Highlands Ranch and Senator Dylan Roberts, a Democrat from Avon — seeks to put more regulations in place for “intoxicating hemp products.” But the legislators also want to introduce an…