MACON, Ga. — A story we continue to follow is about a little girl named Haleigh Cox whose family turned to cannabis oil to help treat her seizures. We introduced you to her when she was 4 years old. Now, it’s eight years later. We caught up with Cox and the former state rep who began the battle to get access to medical marijuana.

They say it hasn’t been easy, and it’s not over.

“I used to have to watch her every minute of every day. She would stop breathing and it was so hard to take even a moments time away from her,” said Janea Cox, mother of Haleigh.

Back in 2014, Haleigh would have as many as 200 seizures a day. At 4-and-a- half years old, doctors told Janea her daughter wouldn’t live past the age of 5.

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