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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Baby Mary Jane Pierce at centre of cannabis oil treatment battle dies 🌿Baby Mary Jane Pierce at centre of cannabis oil treatment battle dies
B.C. Coroners Service says the baby died Friday of natural causes
The severely ill baby whose parents wanted to treat with cannabis oil has died, the B.C. Coroners Service has confirmed.
Mary Jane Pierce was born prematurely at 25 weeks with serious health problems, including brain bleeding, cerebral palsy and severe seizures.
Her parents, Justin Pierce and Michelle Arnold, had fought to treat her symptoms with cannabis oil, which they said had helped each of them with their own epilepsy issues.
The B.C. Coroners Service said the baby girl died Friday at B.C. Children's Hospital.
The parents had previously won a temporary injunction to keep the infant on life support. At the time, Mary Jane was in the care of an agency under the province's Ministry of Children and Family Development.
Pierce and Arnold said they had been pressured to put Mary Jane in the province's care and hadn't consented to remove the baby's ventilator.
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