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Many of us know marijuana is used across the U.S. for various medicinal reasons and to help treat diseases, including those with severe pain from cancer chemotherapy, Multiple Sclerosis, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and even major depression.
In recent years, many have explored the option of giving kids THC as an alternative method to treating epilepsy, Leukemia and Autism, but it has been surrounded with controversy. You have doctors who denounce these kinds of treatment because there’s no scientific proof that it actually works (yet), while you have parents of sick kids who have seen the miracles medicinal marijuana has done to their children first hand.
VICE traveled to Pendleton, Oregon to meet Mykayla Comstock, an 8-year old suffering from Leukemia, who takes large doses of THC every day to treat her disease.
Mykayla’s parents opted out of giving her daughter full body radiation and bone marrow transplant like the doctors recommended, for a more experimental treatment to help combat her disease. And as controversial as it may seem, they say it worked.
Throughout the VICE documentary, they explore the different stages of how the cannabis oils and extracts get to the hands of these parents and why certain growers agree with their treatments, even if they’re not scientists themselves. They visited DIY garages that make the oils and talked to the people helping in the grassroots movement. They even spoke to another set of parents who were inspired by young Mykayla’s story and decided to to treat their toddler with stage 3 wilms tumor.
No matter your position on the topic, one thing is for sure: You will never know to what extent you will go to help save your child of a deadly disease, but medical marijuana helped these people, so at the very least, it’s something to consider.
Even if at times, it seems wrong.