Medicinal cannabis advocate to speak at Nimbin gathering
Paul Lawrence believes he is the luckiest man alive despite having had a tumour the size of a football removed from his spine.
Mr Lawrence will be in Nimbin on Saturday to share his story of surviving two operations, over 20 hours each, to replace three vertebrae in his spine with other pieces of bone from his body.
But the main thrust of his story will be how he has used cannabis to treat pain, where pharmaceutical drugs had failed.
To achieve the remarkable feat of rebuilding his spine after removing his tumour, doctors used around 60 pieces of titanium to knit together his remaining spine, using five ribs, and later, a piece of his leg bone.
An X-ray showing the pieces of titanium holding together Paul Lawrence’s spine.
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