Mom Battles to Give Daughter Medical Cannabis, Fends off Police, CAS
Motivated by love and desperation, an area mother is fighting an uphill battle to treat her daughter’s chronic illness with a special cannabis oil.
The establishment, predictably, is against her: the doctors aren’t keen; the child-welfare authorities aren’t amused; her ex-husband, the child’s father, called the cops.
Still, she soldiers on, with the dedication a mother feels deepest, determined to alleviate her child’s chronic respiratory condition.
“I’m trying my damndest to help my daughter and to fight for other parents who just want to help their kids,” she told the Citizen. “Nothing else has ever worked.”
In order to protect the woman’s identity — also guarded by child-welfare laws — the Citizen has decided not to use names, places, age or other identifying characteristics about the child, a primary-school aged girl.
It is, frankly, too remarkable to ignore, a story that opens this huge ethical window into how — in an era of legal, widespread medical marijuana use...
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