/PRNewswire/ - This week represents one decade since the seven Stanley brothers helped launch the CBD industry from Colorado. Per proclamation by Governor.
A virtual concert headlined by The Avett Brothers will be held in April to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of Colorado Springs teenager Charlotte Figi.
The 13-year-old Figi, who suffered from catastrophic epileptic seizures, inspired a medical cannabis movement after her story was featured on a CNN Special Report called “Weed,” hosted by Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Weed” demonstrated how Figi’s seizures were soothed with Charlotte s Web, an extract of CBD now named in her honor.
The tribute concert on April 7 officially known as Charlotte Figi Day in Colorado is being called Rock the RoC. It will feature Gupta with The Avett Brothers, a folk rock band from Concord, N.C., that has been nominated for three Grammy Awards. They are perhaps best known for the song “I and Love and You.”
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A virtual concert headlined by The Avett Brothers will be held April 7 to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of Colorado Springs teenager Charlotte Figi.