It was another day and another court appearance for Angela Brown, the Minnesota mother who gave her son an illegal drug that will be legal by this time next year.

Brown stands accused of two gross misdemeanor counts of child endangerment for giving cannabis oil to her son, who suffered seizures and agonizing pain from a head injury. Brown made a brief appearance in Lac qui Parle County court Wednesday morning, where her attorney appealed for the charges against her to be dismissed.

With her in the courtroom was her 15-year-old son Trey, who smiled shyly at the banks of cameras and reporters who turned out for a case that has drawn national and international attention. Before he tried the cannabis oil, his mother said, the muscle spasms from his traumatic brain injury would leave him curled in a fetal position or in so much pain he would punch the walls or hit himself hard enough to break his nose and crack his collarbone. The improvement after he tried the marijuana tincture -- which the family bought legally from a dispensary in Colorado -- was dramatic, his mother said.

"I didn't harm my child," said Brown, a 38-year-old mother of three from Madison. "I really don't want any other mother to have to go through this and that's why I'm putting myself out there. Because this is not me. This is absolutely not me, being in front of all of these cameras and having all these people converge into my life."

By July, medical marijuana will be legal in Minnesota. But that law isn't in effect yet, the Lac qui Parle County Attorney opted to prosecute Brown after an official at Trey's school tipped off child protective services. Brown is charged, not with possession of the small amount of cannabis in the dropper bottle, but of endangering her child by involving him in a drug transaction.

"This simply is not a situation where someone has endangered their child," said Michael Hughes, an attorney from Oregon who volunteered to defend Brown. The statute, he said, was meant to protect children found in meth houses, not a child swallowing drops of cannabis oil to help with the seizures and pain he has suffered since being hit by a baseball line drive three years ago.

The court did not take action on Hughes' request for the case to be dismissed. The two sides will submit additional paperwork early next year.