The struggle and success story of one little girl has put a growing number of parents on the move — literally.

Charolette Figi made headlines in the US and around the world when she was featured in an August 11, 2013 CNN special by Dr. Sanjay Gupta for using CBD-rich cannabis oil to treat her seizure disorder. The oil has no psychoactive effect but brought a much higher quality of life to the child.

Since then, several Ohio families have decided that, if their children can’t have safe and legal access to CBD-rich cannabis for therapeutic purposes, they are kissing the Buckeye State good-bye. But they aren’t going without a fight.

These families are the most recent supporters of the Ohio Rights Group (ORG) who have been flooding the local media with their heart wrenching stories. Their collective goal is to get the Ohio Cannabis Rights Amendment (OCRA) on the November 2014 ballot and ultimately passed. This will allow Ohio residents with certain medical conditions access to cannabis.

TheLeafOnline.com spoke with ORG volunteer Amy Wollet, who wants the OCRA to pass so that her six-year-old daughter, Kaia, will have the opportunity to try cannabis oil for her intractable epilepsy. Kaia sat on her mother’s lap and had several seizures just during the course of this interview.

“My daughter has at least 250 seizures a day. None of the medications have done anything to stop the seizures,” says Wollet.

She went on to explain that some of the anti-seizure medications made Kaia non-communicative and caused her to just sit and drool. Other medications made her behave aggressively and experience severe mood-swings. It was frightening for the Wollet family to helplessly watch this happen to their otherwise exuberant little girl.

Kaia’s has absence seizures as well as myoclonic seizures. Both types of seizures “steal” time in 30-second increments. That makes it very challenging for this kindergartener to learn and keep up with her class in that she is always losing precious moments of time throughout the day. When only a year old, Kaia started having 40 seizures a day. As she gets older, the frequency has been increasing. Her doctors project that by next year she could be suffering up to 500 seizures daily.

When asked if she has tried cannabis oil with her daughter, Wollet responded “No. Not yet. I can’t obtain it legally and I don’t want to do anything illegal to get her taken away.” If something isn’t done to get the seizures under control though, Kaia will likely become bed-bound within a few years. Cannabis is Wollet’s last hope of preserving any quality of life for her daughter. If she can’t access it here in Ohio, they will be forced to move elsewhere for the good of the child.

The ORG has many volunteers working to make sure families like the Wollets never have to chose between breaking the law, losing a loved one to a potentially treatable medical condition, or leaving Ohio.