MADISON, Minn. -- A Lac Qui Parle County mother is charged with giving her son medical cannabis oil before the state's new medical marijuana law takes effect next summer.
Angela Brown, of Madison, Minnesota faces two gross misdemeanors, including child endangerment, for giving her 15-year-old son marijuana oil to relieve pain from a traumatic brain injury.
"He is worth every bit of struggle and any bit of time we have to spend in a courtroom," said David Brown, the boy's father.
Trey Brown was pitching at a baseball game in 2011 when a line drive ball hit him in the temple of the left side of his head. His mother says the injury led to a brain bleed and pain so severe, her son began harming himself and contemplated suicide. Medications failed, and the Browns say that's when an emergency room doctor suggested the family try medical marijuana.
Last spring, the family traveled to Boulder, Colorado to purchase a medical marijuana oil, administered orally to relieve pain and muscle spasms.
"Trey would describe it as reducing the pressure in his head. He didn't have the pressure anymore and his muscles would calm down," said Angela Brown. "Everything was great until I opened my mouth to the wrong person and I got turned in. And family services questioned my son at school, the cops came to my workplace."
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