Title: For the First Time Ever, Cannabis Oil Will Be Used in a Hospital — To Save a 2-Month Old Baby Girl Source:
Free Thought Project URL Source:http://thefreethoughtproject.com/2- ... -hospital/#H7PwVFWLPH3IOvME.99 Published:Feb 12, 2016 Author:Matt Agorist Post Date:2016-02-13 12:12:36 by Deckard Keywords:None Views:1781 Comments:34
Aurora, CO In December, Nicole and Ernie Nunez brought their beautiful baby girl, Amylea, into the world. However, when they brought her home, things quickly took a turn for the worst.
About a day after we went home from delivery is when she had her first seizure, Nicole said. She has a rare form of epilepsy. They dont know exactly the type.
For the past two months, the Nunez family has been desperately trying to treat their daughters condition. Doctors in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the family is from, were unable to find a cause and unable to treat young Amylea. So, the family has fled to Colorado.
Nicole stays at the hospital in Aurora while Ernie drives back and forth to take care of the couples other children and to work.
At the Childrens Hospital in Aurora, doctors continued the drug cocktail in an attempt to stop the horrible seizures, but these medications are not without side-effects.
The medication shes on is hard for her liver, and so were trying to do something different thats not so bad on her body, Ernie said, explaining why the couple has decided to use cannabis oil.
When the family heard about the seemingly miraculous effects of the cannabis oil known as Charlottes Web, they became hopeful and set out to get it for their daughter.
Charlottes Web is a strain of cannabis named after a young girl, Charlotte Figi, whose life it quite literally saved. Charlotte had her first seizure when she was three months old. Over the next few months, she had frequent seizures lasting two to four hours, and she was hospitalized repeatedly.
But her parents found a strain of cannabis that turned their daughters suffering completely around. Since then, countless other children have had their lives saved by this amazing plant.
I sat for a good three weeks fighting with the doctors and trying to talk them into giving me the okay, Nicole said. Ive been working with the case study team and the neurology team here at childrens and Im hopeful this will work.
This week, doctors finally agreed to let the cannabis oil into the hospital to treat Amylea.
For us to get the approval for us to administer it while she in the NICU while shes a patient its kind of like a miracle, Nicole said. Because they were completely against it saying, No you cant do it, you have to wait until shes an out-patient.
Even though the doctors gave the approval to treat Amylea with the oil, they wont administer it to her, so the family has done it themselves.
Amylea has only had a handful of doses, but her parents say the nurses have already noticed a positive change.
According to the family, Amylea is the first and youngest patient to ever receive cannabis oil as a treatment in a hospital.
The significance of cannabis oil being used to treat an infant in a hospital should not be overlooked. What this move effectively illustrates is that cannabis is a viable medicaloption, and its current classification by the federal government as a Schedule 1 drug is as absurd as it is immoral.
The Free Thought Project recently reported on the findings of a study that showed cannabis oil to be a highly effective treatment for intractable epilepsy.
Of 261 patients given CBD treatment, 45% experienced a significant reduction in seizure frequency, and 9% were seizure-free at three months. Some children continued to experience benefits after the trial ended, even one year after.
When the same amazing plant that has cured cancer, saved the lives of epileptic children, and treated countless others, is being used in a hospital in one state, while being the cause for kidnapping and imprisonment by police in another state, something must be done.
Those who continue to lock people in cages for possessing this plant would be wise to refuse further orders to do so. If police wish to be on the right side of history, they should not wait for legislation to tell them to stop kidnapping and caging people for a plant, they should simply stop doing it.
When just doing your job violates the rights of non-violent, peaceful people, some of who only want to save the lives of their children, its time to question the validity of that job.
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Yes there are. There are plenty of plant generated substances that can hurt and kill. There are dangerous chemicals, dangerous tools, dangerous habits, dangerous machines dangerous places, dangerous situations, jobs, etc. The list goes on and on. You can kill yourself by drinking gasoline, but gasoline isn't illegal.
Freedom comes with responsibility. Since US laws have deprived us of responsibility, it also deprives us of freedom.
If there was a chemical compound in gasoline which helped to minimize seizures in children, would you give gasoline to children?
No, but I might give it to you.
That is, I'd hand you a glass of it, and if you decided to drink it down, then that's not my call. (I'm assuming you are not a child).
To your point, no, I would not go out on the street and start handing out cups of gasoline to kids, as your question somewhat implies. Such kids are the responsibility of their own parents, and I'd do nothing to interfere in their care. And of course it goes without saying that this is hypothetical because drinking gasoline is obviously not good for the intestinal tract.
If, however, I had a child I was responsible for who was ill with some kind of terminal condition, and I found some chemical that after due research I decided had a reasonable chance of saving that life and returning that child to normal and there were no other options aside from watching the child die, I likely would administer it, and it wouldn't matter where the chemical came from.
And I sure as hell wouldn't want some bureaucrat or armchair warrior, who shares none of my responsibility to that child telling me that I was not allowed to save that child's life.
"If, however, I had a child I was responsible for who was ill with some kind of terminal condition, and I found some chemical that after due research I decided had a reasonable chance of saving that life and returning that child to normal and there were no other options aside from watching the child die, I likely would administer it, and it wouldn't matter where the chemical came from."
That's my point. Isolate, purify and concentrate the chemical compound that is found -- by studies and trials -- to be effective and administer that chemical compound.
GW Pharmaceuticals has two cannabinoid products -- Sativex for multiple sclerosis treatment and Epidiolex for treatment of epilepsy.