Would You Risk Jail Time By Giving Your 2 Year Old Daughter Cannabis Oil To Save her Life?
How Far Would You Go To Save Your Child’s Life?
An Australian father could not stand by and let his 2 year old daughter, who was in the hospital, suffer from an aggressive and rare cancer called Neuroblastoma knowing that all possible treatments hadn’t been exhausted.
Being told your daughter has a 50 percent chance of living could trigger “survival mode” and make you do something you wouldn’t normally do. The toddler’s father survival mode made him decide to give his daughter cannabis oil, which is illegal in Australia.
The family moved from Cairns to Brisbane for a 12-month course of chemotherapy and her father reportedly gave her medical grade cannabis oil to supplement her therapy.
He was arrested and put in jail for doing what that he thought was best for his daughter. He had to post bail to be released from jail and was initially banned from seeing his daughter in the hospital.
The conditions for his bail were changed and he was eventually allowed to visit his daughter in the hospital, but had to have a medical practitioner present.
Maybe his daughter’s reaction to the cannabis oil had something to do with the change of his bail conditions. Her father wrote on Faceboook”
“What we saw when [my daughter] was given the medical cannabis oil was nothing short of miraculous.”
“Her cancer ridden little body was alive again – [she] had almost instant quality of life – She would say- ‘Daddy, tummy is not sore’, she would be able to eat like a champion and began to gain weight, her energy was up and wanted to go outside with me instead of lay on her back with legs curled up. Her skin colour came back, her eyes were sparkling again, we looked at each other in complete amazement.”
“[Her] delightful behaviour was restored. We were certain after seeing these results that her recovery was entirely possible.” The Independent
