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Title: Chronically Ill 6-Year-Old Walks for First Time After Medical Cannabis Treatment
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Activist Post
URL Source: http://www.activistpost.com/2015/08 ... edical-cannabis-treatment.html
Published: Aug 12, 2015
Author: Josh Mur
Post Date: 2015-08-13 08:35:56 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 4139
Comments: 21
By Josh Mur
The medicinal benefits of cannabis used to inspire heated debate—used to. With ongoing discoveries and successful treatments, denying the efficacy of cannabis treatment is no longer a matter of opinion but, rather, a complete fallacy. Around 100 years of propaganda, fear-mongering, and criminalization has attempted to not only discredit the plant’s medicinal value, but to portray the virtually harmless flower as dangerous, as well.
Thankfully, those days of irrational fear and denial are slowly coming to an end. In fact, the steady shift in the general public’s perspective on cannabis has been significant enough for a growing number of parents to consider cannabis oil as a viable option to treat their sick children. Such is the case with Bella Chinonis.
Bella is a six-year-old girl from Michigan who suffers from a rare condition called 1p36 Deletion Syndrome—a disease that can lead to a series of very serious health issues including inhibited speech abilities, developmental delays, and chronic seizures. In addition to dealing with her rare disease, Bella also struggles with kidney failure, several holes in her heart, and until just a few months ago, she was unable to walk.
After several pharmaceutical treatments failed and she was denied a medical cannabis prescription from her neurologist, Bella’s parents sought help from doctors in Texas and Detroit that were actually willing to help. As one may have guessed, this was not an easy task. In the state of Michigan, it is policy that any patients under the age of 18 must seek examination and approval for medical marijuana from not one, but two doctors. Thankfully, after her examination, Bella received a recommendation for cannabis oil.
So did the cannabis oil help 6-year-old Bella? According to her mother, it absolutely did.
“She can stand now. She responds to voices and she loves the movie ‘Frozen.’ She didn’t do that before and the only thing different we are doing is giving her medical marijuana,” she said.
Although Bella’s disease cannot be cured, her introduction to cannabis oil has enhanced not only her own life, but the lives of her family members. Bella’s parents no longer have to see their daughter struggling to stand or remain unresponsive to the broken hearted people around her.Bella isn’t the only child to be effectively treated with cannabis oil, nor is she the youngest. Dr. William Courtney of the Cannabis International Foundation announced in 2012 that his youngest patient was an 8-month-old infant with an inoperable brain tumor. After 2 months of treatment that put small amounts of cannabis oil on the child’s pacifier, there was enough of a reduction in the tumor’s size that the oncologist allowed the treatment to continue. By 8 months, the tumor had virtually disappeared, leading people to dub the child a “miracle baby.”
These are not isolated incidents. Cannabis increasingly serves as an effective medicine for sick children—despite the fact that the American Academy of Pediatrics has stated it does not support cannabis treatment for children because of the drug’s negative effects on brain development in people below the age of 21. However, Dr. Courtney disagrees, stating that the use of non-psychoactive cannabis allows for significantly larger doses that allow the medical benefits to take effect much faster. In an interview with the Huffington Post, Dr. William Courtney states:
There is a lot of information out there that has been built up with the intent on causing confusion […] the non-psychoactive use of the plant really facilitates a lot of its benefits because it allows elevated dosage.”
The idea of giving children marijuana as medicine may still seem taboo to some, but one can’t help but wonder why this is so. Is the power of fear and propaganda that much more powerful than the ability to heal sick children? Are outdated notions and faulty studies more reputable than direct observation of successful treatments? Why is it that the U.S. government—the very institution that has perpetuated these absurd misconceptions—has admitted that cannabis can cure cancer…yet there is still a naïve herd of clueless Americans that sees the D.A.R.E. seminar they sat through in 3rd grade as more credible? (1 image)
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"Chronically Ill 6-Year-Old Walks for First Time After Medical Cannabis Treatment"
#2. To: misterwhite (#1)
Kinda tacky even for LF.
#3. To: TooConservative (#2)
"Kinda tacky even for LF."
"Tacky" is the notion that marijuana can make people walk who couldn't before.
"Tacky" is giving false hope to paraplegics.
"Tacky" is using 6-year-old sick children to promote an agenda to legalize recreational marijuana.
"Tacky" is using anecdotal stories in lieu of actual research as a means of convincing an ignorant public.
#6. To: misterwhite (#3)
"Tacky" is using 6-year-old sick children to promote an agenda to legalize recreational marijuana.
This isn't weed to get high with. It has the wrong type of THC in its oil. It's the plant oil they're after, not recreational THC.
Many states distinguish between the two.
You do realize that doctors prescribe strong opiates to patients every single day? Far more dangerous, far more addictive, a lot more ruined lives as a result of dependence.
You carry your Drug War too far and give your opposition the chance to make very easy points against your entire position. Tactically foolish, strategically suicidal.
#11. To: TooConservative (#6)
"It has the wrong type of THC in its oil."
According to the article, it's "cannabis oil". You don't know what's in it and neither do they.
"You do realize that doctors prescribe strong opiates to patients every single day?"
Yep. You do realize that marijuana has the analgesic effect of two Tylenol? Yet you're saying patients are substituting marijuana for opiates?
"Far more dangerous, far more addictive, a lot more ruined lives as a result of dependence."
Sure. You have to be careful. You can die if you abuse them. Some do. Ain't my f**king fault.
#13. To: misterwhite (#11)
I'm saying that the consequences of the Charlotte's Web oil are minimal and patients and parents see dramatic improvement in at least some cases. These are not libertarian weed activists. They just want their children to have a more normal life.
These opiates are greatly overprescribed and form a substantial part of the legal drug addiction industry. And there is a large black market for these drugs. The legal opiate pain drugs do far far more harm than allowing disabled children to use the CW oil to relieve disabling epilepsy.
#15. To: TooConservative (#13)
"I'm saying that the consequences of the Charlotte's Web oil are minimal ..."
Is that what she was given? I didn't read that. All I read was "cannabis oil".
"These opiates are greatly overprescribed and form a substantial part of the legal drug addiction industry."
Was this 6-year-old being given opiates? Again, I didn't read that.
Two strawmen in one post. A new record.
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#16. To: misterwhite (#15) (Edited)
Is that what she was given? I didn't read that. All I read was "cannabis oil".
"Bella is a six-year-old girl from Michigan who suffers from a rare condition called 1p36 Deletion Syndrome—a disease that can lead to a series of very serious health issues including inhibited speech abilities, developmental delays, and chronic seizures."
CW oil is what they use for epilepsy. The hippie types don't want it because it isn't recreational THC.
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