3-Year-Old Gets Medical Marijuana Over Chemo As Cancer Treatment

“One year ago, 3-year-old Landon Riddle was diagnosed with leukemia. Under doctors’ orders, his mother Sierra Riddle began treatment for her young son: aggressive chemotherapy and radiation. But while still living in Utah, Sierra watched her little boy become violently ill from the chemotherapy — Landon suffered nerve-damage in his legs, nausea that led to vomiting dozens of times a day, intense pain and at one point went 25 days without eating following the treatment, according to CNN. “Around the clock, he was usually on liquid morphine, Ativan, Promethexane,” Sierra told CNN back in July. “And it just really didn’t seem to be helping.” Feeling like her family “didn’t have anything left to lose” she looked into medical marijuana treatment. She moved her family to Colorado Springs, Colo. to benefit from the state’s marijuana laws and started to give Landon liquid forms of both Cannabidiol, or CBD, and Tetrahydrocannabinol, also known as THC. “Within four weeks we could see the improvement,” Sierra told KRDO…”.* Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur break it down on The Young Turks.

*Read more here from Matt Ferner: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/30/marijuana-over-chemo_n_4017985.html

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