Teen girl and mother fight the state over right to refuse chemo cancer treatment

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95. Oh gawdess bless you.

I understand the Big Pharma people have a full claim on the brains of 99% of the "D" candidates, but living in California, I come across news articles and meet people whose stories go like this:

http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/miracle-cannabis-oil-may-treat-cancer-but-money-and-the-law-stand-in-the-way-of-finding-out/Content?oid=2825695


Don't forget, the side effects of the treatment with CBD happens to be:

1) sleepy
2) hungry
3) happy

While the side effects of chemo and radiation are torturous agony, total anemia and energy and again, dealing with Big Insurance people trying to come up with the money and the treatments.
and loss of hair etc.

And yes, according to Big Pharma, these tales of CBD cures are "anecdotal." But I used to hang out with many of the top independent breast cancer researchers, in SF Bay area, and they kept pointing out how ridiculous it is to say that a breast cancer patient is "in remission" after five years, when she then goes on to die in year six or year seven.

And that "remission" has cost her her breasts, her money, and often her home.