B.C. parents seek court order to treat severely ill baby with cannabis oil

Couple fight for chance to see if treatment can save daughter clinging to life in a Vancouver hospital.

VANCOUVER—Michelle Arnold says she’s seen cannabis oil save two lives — hers and her husband’s.

Now, she’s fighting for the chance to see if it can save her four-and-a-half-month-old daughter, who is clinging to life in a Vancouver hospital.

“I can’t just give up when I’ve seen hope,” Arnold said tearfully outside B.C. Supreme Court on Friday.

“If there is a medicine out there . . . that can help her, that can make her my child, then I will do it. I will do whatever I can to give it to her.”

Arnold and her husband, Justin Pierce, are both 21 and

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