States like California have made huge strides in the legalization of marijuana but the substance isn’t legal or even decriminalized, everywhere. 

Now, NBC News reports, one little girl wants to change that. 

Twelve-year-old Alexis Bortell is suing U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in hopes of having the courts declare the U.S. Controlled Substance Act unconstitutional in its prohibition of marijuana.

Sessions is a staunch opponent of marijuana; earlier this year, he said the plant is “only slightly less awful” than heroin, Newsweek reports.

Bortell, however, believes that marijuana is not only far better than heroin but that it is literally a lifesaver.

Ever since she was very young, Bortell has suffered from dangerous seizures brought on by her intractable epilepsy. Her family took her to see specialist after specialist, but every treatment they dreamed up failed.

Finally, Bortell was told there were only two things left to try: invasive brain surgery or marijuana. 

She chose the weed.

There was just one problem: Bortell and her family lived in Texas, a state that doesn’t even allow marijuana consumption for medical reasons.

Desperate, the Bortells moved their entire family to Colorado, a state with far less restrictive marijuana laws.

Once there, Bortell began taking two doses of cannabis oil daily. She also keeps Cannatol RX, a THC spray packaged like a rescue inhaler, with her at all times; any time she feels a seizure coming on, she takes a puff.

Thanks to this medicine, Bortell hasn’t had a seizure in three years.

Now well, Bortell finds her freedom of movement limited. Both her parents are veterans, but she can’t accompany them to military bases to take advantage of their military benefits because she can’t use her medicine on federal property.

She also wants to visit her grandparents back in Texas, but if she were to be caught with her medicine on her in that state, her parents could lose custody of her. 

Her father, Dean Bortell said that although his daughter won her life back in the move to Colorado, “she lost her home.”

He also worries about what will happen to her when she gets older, fearing that she may not be able to go to the college of her choice or have freedom of movement throughout her own country due to prohibition.

“She just wants to be like everybody else,” Dean said. “When she grows up, she wants to be free to choose where she lives and what she does for a living. She wants to be treated like an American citizen and not just a state citizen. She doesn’t want to have to fear going to jail every time she sees a police officer.”

Alexis is also concerned about others in her position, particularly those younger than her, like 6-year-old Jagger Cotte, who has joined her lawsuit along with former NFL player Marvin Washington and Army veteran Jose Belen.

Sessions has not responded to the suit, but the justice department has filed a memo with the courts supporting a motion to dismiss Bortell’s case. Should Bortell win her suit, medical marijuana would become legal throughout the United States.