Marijuana As An Alternative Of Chemotherapy

A Colorado Springs mom is transmittable heat from social services for treating her son's cancer with cannabis as an alternative of chemotherapy. The thing is, she says, it seems to be working.

Sierra Riddle learned a year ago that her son Landon, 3, had an aggressive form of leukemia. Doctors in their hometown of Salt Lake City began the standard treatment of radiation and chemotherapy, which took a heavy toll on his little body.

Landon became violently ill, vomiting multiple times a day, and suffered nerve damage in his legs, Riddle told CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta in July. At one point, the boy went 25 days without eating. "Around the clock, he's usually on liquid morphine, Ativan, Promethean. And it just really didn't seem to be helping," Riddle said.

Though she didn't know much about medical marijuana, Riddle decided to try it because "we didn't have anything else to lose." She and Landon moved to Colorado, where medical marijuana is legal, in order to obtain the drug.

In January Landon began taking liquid forms of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) and CBD (cannabidiol), two compounds found in cannabis. Miraculously, his cancer began to retreat. "As soon as we started taking the oil, his platelets have been a regular healthy person's level and they can't understand why," Riddle told CNN.

Landon went off chemotherapy in early July, and continues to take his four liquid capsules of the cannabis compounds per day. Last week, local news reports showed Landon as a happy, healthy-looking little boy, running and playing as any three-year-old would.

But doctors are concerned that stopping Landon's chemo treatments may put his life in danger. After a Colorado doctor threatened to report Riddle for refusing chemotherapy for Landon, a human services agent showed up on her doorstep last week, CBS Local Denver reported.

Another sit-down with the doctor and child protective services was reportedly scheduled for Wednesday, October 2. Riddle told CBS she has not missed any of Landon's scheduled appointments, but refuses to put him back on chemo unless his situation turns dire again.

"I just want to say, no matter what I am not going to give him chemo, but I'm not going to risk losing him either," she said. "I'm not going to push it that far." Riddle isn't the first parent on record to use medical marijuana to combat a child's cancer. Last year, a 7-year-old girl in Oregon was given the drug by her mother to ease leukemia symptoms.

Others, such as the Echols family of Oregon, have attempted to treat their children's seizure disorders. Because of laws in most states, as well as a lack of precedent for treating children with cannabis, there is almost no guidance for parents who wish to do so. The CBD compound seems to have an ability to combat cancer in human cells and in mice according to lab experiments, researchers from California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute told CNN.

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Mother needs medical cannabis for daughter fighting brain cancer

Daliah Barnhart is a two-year-old with a contagious cackle who loves to dance. "I have by no means met a child as adoring or as lovable," says Daliah's mother Moriah Barnhart.

But earlier this year, this Tampa tot was identified with a violent form of brain cancer. After tragedy surgeries to eliminate the cancer and decrease difficulty on the brain, Daliah's mending is just opening with numerous rounds of chemo. She'll be suitable for emission when she turns three.

"A good day for us is a disgusting day for most people," said Barnhart. "Her pain, and her nausea and hearing her cry, there are just no words to describe." That's why last month Daliah's mom in progress researching unconventional, currently illegal alternate treatment-- medical marijuana.

"It's a plant that cures," says Barnhart. "I want doctors to be able to take that plant and use it to promote my daughter." Barnhart admits even she dismissed the idea at first.

"There is probably nothing anyone could have said or done four-and-a-half months ago, to convince me. That's why I made a video [about our experience] because if you question where I'm at now, please seeing where I've been.

Barnhart knows marijuana isn't a cure, but does believe it could reduce side effects: the seizures, extreme pain and nausea. She's taking her case to lawmakers on Facebook and YouTube in hopes of changing federal laws allowing for research into benefits she believes could help Daliah live.

"I want my daughter to wake up and remember what it's like to want to be here," said Barnhart. "She's 2 years old. She should wake up every day excited that she's alive." Moriah Barnhart has created a petition on the White House website hoping to convince the President to take potential action.

Marijuana Helped Tommy Chong Beat Cancer

One half of the prominent "Cheech and Chong" comedy team says he has trampled prostate cancer, thanks to the use of marijuana.

Earlier this week Tommy Chong posted on CelebStoner that he had "kicked cancer's a**!"

"So the magic plant does cure cancer with the right diet and supplements," wrote Chong.

Chong is glorying his healing with a bit eccentric methods of his Canadian doctor, who treated his cancer with "hash oil" and expectant him to modify his diet. He also said a number of conferences with Adam Dreamhealer, a man whom he illustrated as a "world-renowned healer".

Last June, the 74-year-old comedian was analyzed with cancer after a three-year period in which he said he had been drug free.

Chong said he is 99 percent free of the disease.

"I'm due for one more blood test, MRI, etc., but I feel the best I've felt in years," he wrote in his post.

Chong, who exposed in June 2012, he was using cannabis to treat his cancer, said in an interview with CNN, that legalizing marijuana "means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being detained."

The actor is best known as being part of the stoner-comedy duo "Cheech and Chong" with Richard "Cheech" Marin.
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Cannabis for Cancer -Gustin Reichbach

Few months ago, Brooklyn judge Gustin Reichbach had written an op-ed for the NY Times, showing his support for medicinal weed and details his three-and-a-half year battle with stage 3 pancreatic cancer, "My success has required an enormous price, including several weeks of chemotherapy, rays terrible and intense surgery... Consumed weed is the only medicine that gives me some relief from feeling sick, promotes my appetite, and makes it much simpler to get to sleep." Yesterday he passed in his home.

"Daily News Report is Reichbach is a vibrant, brave and questionable existence on the court for last 21 years;I'll keep in mind the creativeness and understanding that he had. He was an amazing guy" said by Barry Sheck, the head of the innocence Project.

Reichbach calling medicinal weed not a law-and-order issue; it is a healthcare and a individual privileges problem.

Being handled at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, I am getting the overall standard of health care. But physicians cannot be predicted to do what the law prevents, even when they know it is in the best passions of their sufferers. When modern health care is recognized as an essential human and healthcare right, weed for healthcare use should be beyond controversy.

It is another terrible aporia on the globe of most cancers that the one drug that gives comfort without terrible adverse reactions continues to be categorized as a narcotic with no healing value.

Because criminalizing an effective healthcare strategy impacts the reasonable management of rights, I feel required to talk out as both a judge and a severe cancer patient struggling with a lethal condition. I implore the governor and the Legislature of New York, always regarded a head among states, to be a part of the ahead and gentle thinking of 16 other states and complete the medicinal weed expenses this year. Medical technology has not yet found a treat, but it is crude to refuse us entry to one material that has proven to improve our struggling.

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