“Cannabidiol has received abundant media attention as a potential therapy for intractable epilepsy, based mainly on anecdotal evidence.

These findings suggest that cannabidiol could be exerting its anticonvulsant effects, at least in part, through its actions on voltage-gated sodium channels, and resurgent current may be a promising therapeutic target for the treatment of epilepsy syndromes.”

http://www.epilepsycurrents.org/doi/full/10.5698/1535-7511-16.6.399