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

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154. The word "anecdotal" and those using it sets my nerves on edge.

Sorry if I was nasty, but that word gets dragged out far too often whenever and wherever any thinking person tries to contribute to a discussion.

Wanna know where the new meaning applied to the word "anecdotal" comes from?

Prior to the late 1980's, the word referred to a tale about a pleasant and enjoyable experience.

Then to the surprise of Big Pestiicde and Big Pharma industries (which often are one and the same,) we anti-pesticide activists were able to succeed in making California the first state in the Union to stipulate that wherever various poisons and carcinogens were used, there had to be placards detailing the use of the toxins and carcinogens at whatever facility utilized thsoe items. (Prop 65.)

We were told when we succeed in this that our legal effort would be so expenseive that the business world in California would come to a screeching halt, but that of course didn't happen.

But Big Pesticide and Big Pahram decided that they needed to band together and have a new way of viewing the anti-poison movement. Otherwise, they feared that activists would ensure that the same labeling informed people about everyday dangers around them in the other 49 states, and Big Industry does not like people being educated.

Since much of what informed us activists were our own experiences, they decided to trivialize those experiences. (For instance, I became an activist against pestiicdes when the 1981-82 aerial spraying of Santa Clara Calif with malathion caused me to develop a skin conditon known as vitaligo. This means that for the last 30 years, I could't be outside in direct sunlight!)

Personal observation has always been a part of science. Witness Newton and the apple. Witness the many astronomers and their telescopes, and their discoveries. Even witness Ed Jenner and his observations about cow maids not getting small pox.

But now people are automatically ridiculed if they make observations such as, "My daughter had a dozen epileptic seizures a day before we discovered that CBD oil would help her. Now we simply see to it that she has the proper soseage of CBD oil, and she is almost seizure free."

In this instance, the people who hear this parent state this wills ay, "it is only anecdotal." Well so what! Anecdotal as a slur is made up.

And the parent may have already spent four years of their life and tens of thousands of dollars trying to get something that works for their daughter, but nothing inside the medical model did.

Mind you, people often allow the medical world to experiment on them and their family members for years before they turn to CBD. There have been cases of people in fourth stage of this or that cancer and after six months on CBD, the tumors afflicting them are so shrunken that they can go back to their old life. And their use of CBD oil occurred only after the medical professionals told them that "nothing more can be done."

As far as the fact that the National Cancer Institute's study was on mice, I imagine that that was the professional way to go. Now that the NCI knows there was indeed success in using the cannabis, they will have more ability to get people to sign on to the experiment(s) that is needed to utilize CBD oil for a cancer study on humans. But wouldn't it have been seriouslly immoral to go ahead with a study on humans before there was a single study done on animals?

Also, cost is a factor for many people. I am betting that you and your spouse had to have been insured to be part of this study, (or else rich!) and you had to be connected in some way (such as living close to a decent teaching hospital) before you had the extreme good fortune to get to be part of this experimental procedure that savedyour spouse. Good for you that it succeeded. But how much did it cost?

I mean, I recently found out that a friend was forced by Kaiser to have a colonoscopy to dermine if he ahd any signs of colon cancer. So he went in and had that colonscopy,without anesthesia of course, because Kaiser won't give it to you for that. *(You need to be an executive with premium insurance tohave a colonoscopy in a pain free manner.) Polyps were discovered, but Kaiser now goes under some system of medicine where they don't have to remove polyps on a person who is over 65! So there is a real need to get to have a simple and inexpensive remedy for various cancers, as there are indeed death panels operating inside Big Insurers. Many of us are paying insurance premiums knowing that our "doctors" are not going to go to bat for us and see we have the state of the art treatment, as they get promoted if they deny us treatment, so we really have to find things that work that are on the cheap!