After medications failed to quiet 2-year-old Grace Burriesci’s seizures, her family packed up and moved from New York to Colorado, hoping that a special strain of medical marijuana grown there could help their daughter.

Diagnosed with Dravet Syndrome when she was a year old, the little girl had been suffering as many as 400 seizures a day. Her family feared that if the seizures couldn’t be brought under control, they’d lose Grace.

“The FDA-approved pharmaceuticals weren’t working for her and unfortunately, kids that have her condition are actually passing away from it, so it’s a matter of life and death,” Grace’s dad, Biagio Burriesci, told TODAY.