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Health/Medical Title: Chronically Ill 6-Year-Old Walks for First Time After Medical Cannabis Treatment By Josh Mur The medicinal benefits of cannabis used to inspire heated debateused 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 plants 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 publics 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 Syndromea 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, Bellas 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 didnt do that before and the only thing different we are doing is giving her medical marijuana, she said. Although Bellas disease cannot be cured, her introduction to cannabis oil has enhanced not only her own life, but the lives of her family members. Bellas parents no longer have to see their daughter struggling to stand or remain unresponsive to the broken hearted people around her.Bella isnt 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 childs pacifier, there was enough of a reduction in the tumors 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 childrendespite the fact that the American Academy of Pediatrics has stated it does not support cannabis treatment for children because of the drugs 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 cant 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. governmentthe very institution that has perpetuated these absurd misconceptionshas 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? Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 7.
#1. To: Deckard (#0)
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.
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.
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