The remarkable transition toward cannabis freedom is a truly great moment in U.S. history. As more lawmakers on Capitol Hill join the fight to defeat federal prohibition, more states are recognizing the benefits of cannabis decriminalization, but there remains wide disparity.
When medical cannabis is outlawed in one state and legal in neighboring states, law-abiding parents must become criminals to heal their children after all other options have failed.
The Free Thought Project interviewed Sarah Ellett, who literally had to flee her home state of Utah to save her daughters life without fear of state oppression. Now safe in the state of Oregon, 4-year-old Remie is eating and drinking on her own, walking, speaking and playing.
Remie suffers from multiple debilitating conditions and was not expected to live. She spent the first five months of her life in the neonatal intensive care unit and then continual emergency trips back to the hospital.
But medical cannabis allowed her to beat the odds and thrive. Not only is she growing now, but she has been able to stop taking some pharmaceutical medications that caused further debilitating effects.
Remies story shows that cannabis works for other conditions besides seizures, including the miraculous ability to jump-start the pituitary gland into making growth hormones necessary for life. Before cannabis, Remie was immobilized.
Remie can walk because cannabis took away her pain and helped her tone, making it so she can stand straight, said Sarah. She used to have ankle braces but no more. Cannabis stopped her nausea and helped her to tolerate food. It helped her to start chewing food and swallowing. It helped her to talkeach day she speaks a little more.
Sarah has experienced her own transformation, from being completely against cannabis to embracing the plant and its ability to heal her daughter. Along the way, she has won over several staunchly conservative Mormon friends in Utah, and spoken with lawmakers who may turn out to be allies in the fight for medical cannabis freedom.
Sarah began considering medical cannabis in 2015 to treat Remie after reading the story of SuperNova, who was experiencing miraculous improvements after her parents moved to Colorado and started giving her cannabis oil. We had the privilege of telling Novas story in Dec. 2016 after interviewing her mother.
Sarahs son, a war veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), also helped her open up to the possibility of using medical cannabis. After getting no help from the Veterans Administration, her son successfully treated himself and is now able to cope with PTSD.
At this time, Remie was not improving, despite several regimens of pharmaceutical medications. Like Nova, Remie suffers from panhypopituitarism, where the pituitary gland is inactive and does not produce the hormones necessary for life. Remie suffers from other conditions affecting the muscles, kidneys and lungs.
Utah passed a law in 2014 legalizing high-CBD extracts, but Remie didnt qualify under the law, which also required extremely low THC levels.
In 2015, while still in Utah, Sarah obtained a months supply of whole-plant cannabis oil from a cancer patient. She started giving Remie very low doses.
Within two to three days, Sarah began to notice improvements. Remie used to wake up every day vomiting due to bronchial spasms; this was the first illness cannabis oil was able to control, where pharma meds which made her sleepy and grumpy failed.
Within a week Sarah was able to take Remie swimming, helping her to deal with stress which in turns helps prevent emergency epidoses. After two weeks on cannabis oil, Remie took her first step. Within three to four weeks, at the age of three, she began walking.
Sarah never dreamed Remie could improve so dramatically.
I gave my daughter oil and at the age of three my daughter finally walked. I came close to losing my daughter.
As the months supply began to run out, Sarah knew she had to take drastic measures to keep Remie on a positive path. She drove to Colorado but couldnt access medical cannabis without a state MMJ card. So she bought some bubble hash, which is a clean, purified concentrate, and brought it home to make her own tincture.
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