$6m Funding a Big Step for Miles Family WITHIN minutes of the State Government announcing a $6 million medicinal cannabis trial this week, Blue Mountain Heights mother Rhonda Miles registered her son for the program which could save his life. Lachlan Miles, 16, has severe drug-resistant epilepsy which he has battled for years and dramatically changed the quick-witted teenager's life. He is now waiting to learn if he earned one of 30 spots on a clinical trial set to start by the end of the year. [continues 304 words]