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Australian family moves to British Columbia for life-changing cannabis oil treatments
    #22348938 - 10/08/15 07:25 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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An Australian family who moved their terminally ill daughters to Victoria to legally use cannabis oil says the girls’ lives have been transformed by the drug – but it might not last.

Georgia-Grace Fulton, 8, and Tabetha Fulton, 13, both suffer from a degenerative lung disease that is so rare it doesn’t have an official name, according to their mother Bobby-Jo.

Tabetha suffered a long list of symptoms including osteoporosis, secondary pulmonary hypertension and extreme fatigue because her inflamed lungs weren’t able to absorb oxygen into her bloodstream.

“Before the cannabis oil I obviously didn’t go to school very often, and just walking from our lounge room to my bedroom was a struggle,” said Tabetha.

“I would just walk around, get a little bit tired, and not really play that much,” said Georgia-Grace, who experienced  fatigue. “I’d sit on the couch and watch TV all day.”

Both were put on heavy doses of corticosteroids to keep the inflammation down and hooked up to oxygen tanks 24 hours a day.

While the steroids appeared to be the girls’ only option, Bobby-Jo said the drugs started causing even worse side effects for Tabetha.

“The steroids were killing her faster than the lung disease itself,” she said. “To watch what Tabetha has gone through and know that we were on exactly the same path with her sister, it’s devastating. As a parent, it’s soul-destroying.”

After much research into the anti-inflammatory effects of cannabis oil, Bobby-Jo started Tabetha on a 12-week treatment in Australia – despite marijuana not being legalized in that country.

She said the results were nothing short of miraculous. Tabetha was taken off her oxygen tank and was able to participate in school activities for the first time in her life.

“Within two weeks, she had a normal heartrate, which was unheard of,” she said. “By the five-week mark, the school asked me if she wanted to participate in their surfing program. So within six weeks, our daughter had gone from not even being able to play hide and seek, to surfing.”

It worked so well that the Fultons decided to leave everything behind and come to Victoria, where they can legally obtain cannabis oil thanks to National Access Cannabis, a leading Canadian medical marijuana program.

The girls take two millilitres of cannabis oil a day which has no active THC, meaning they avoid the feeling of being “stoned” – or any other unwanted side effects.

But their ordeal isn’t over yet. The family is only permitted to stay in Canada for up to six months and once that time is up they’ll be forced to return to Australia – and face legal action if they continue to use the treatment.

“To tell her, ‘I’m sorry honey, this is illegal in our country and you have to back to the way you were,’ how do you do that?” said Bobby-Jo.

“We can only stay six months, so basically we have to push the Australian government for a special exemption. We have no other choice. We can’t take our daughters off this now.”

NAC is tracking the family’s results and is also helping to lobby the Australian government for the exemption.

Friends of the Fultons have launched a GoFundMe page to support them while they continue their treatments in Canada.




http://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/australian-family-leaves-home-for-life-changing-cannabis-oil-treatments-in-b-c-1.2598613


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Re: Australian family moves to British Columbia for life-changing cannabis oil treatments [Re: Tantrika] * 1
    #22349054 - 10/08/15 08:11 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Anyone who says weed isn't a medicine has never studied it or is either lying or incapable of performing accurate research. At this point it's been studied enough that if doesn't matter what the governments say or approve of. Marijuana has scientifically accepted antiinflammatory properties and has been shown in numerous studies to be an effective treatment in a percentage of patients with autoimmune diseases. This is because the cannabanoid system can regulate the inflammation process. The only reason we don't already have dozens of cannabinoid based antiinflammatory drugs on the market is because the drug was illegalized and any research on it required a clearance from the government; clearance that they wouldn't give if it made the drug look anything less than severely damaging, before it caught the interest of the scientific community.


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Re: Australian family moves to British Columbia for life-changing cannabis oil treatments [Re: NotTheDevil]
    #22353426 - 10/09/15 07:08 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Is CBD illegal in australia? Either way, they can still get the medicine needed for their daughter, legal or not. But these laws - and the way politicians seem *so* afraid to change them, causing massive damage to people who need cannabis as medicine. This is a serious violation of human rights that never stops and garners so much attention but still, nothing happens. Worldwide, more or less.

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Anyone who says weed isn't a medicine has never studied it or is either lying or incapable of performing accurate research.




Def lying but i think of it more so as hiding behind stigma.


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