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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Young sisters pin health hopes on Victoria cannabis treatment 🌿Young sisters pin health hopes on Victoria cannabis treatment
Two sisters from Australia have come to Canada seeking help for a degenerative lung disease that could quickly prove to be fatal if not treated properly. And they are receiving it in Victoria, thanks to an alternative treatment centre that is supplying the children with cannabis oil.
The concern, however, is what happens when Tabetha, 13, and Georgia-Grace Fulton, 8, return home in a few months.
Prior to their arrival in Victoria this summer, the sisters were being treated in Australia with steroids — drugs whose side-effects, including osteoporosis, have drastically reduced their quality of life, says mother Bobby-Jo Fulton.
The family came to Canada, the first country to make legal the use of medicinal marijuana by non-residents, seeking an alternative means of treatment.
“In the end, they want to go back home,” said Alex Abellan, founder of National Access Cannabis on Quadra Street, an alternative treatment centre that is...
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