Ministry approves marijuana for 14-year-old cancer patient

When my son had leukemia during nine month (he died and was only 12 years old)and leukemia made that his skin was gangrenous. You can imagine the pain he had and if doctors accepted give him some marijuana I should accepte it also. He got much morfin and I can say it makes sick. We must do all we can for help people in pain.

(trying to answer Dave's question) and warmongers and greedmongers and gay bashers and women bashers and child bashers and patriarchal ways and to those who gain money or ego from alcohol supremacism. And/or why share power with everyone when you can declare a group that's a little different designated scapegoat and have righteous fury fun grinding them under your heel? But with much help from medicinal cannabis, awareness is growing (rapidly at the moment in the U.S.) that cannabis, while not problem free, is quite benign compared to its problem child competition alcohol.

Dutch, I'm sure the Palestinian Arabs have plenty of weed of their own. They don't need to come to Israel to smoke it. By the way, are you from NY? I was just reading that people from NY are the unhappiest of all people, and you always seem to be unhappy, especially when it comes to your pet peeves. When are you going to disengage yourself from the keyboard and do something really worthwhile for the people you feel so sorry for? "Allowing the use of marijuana to improve the quality of life for a 14yr old Israeli teen (caner pt)yet turning around and denying many Palestinian children access to life saving and sparing drugs."

If that's the case, I'll have to apologize for my ignorance. Could you provide more details?

It's actually quite amazing how marijuana can treat different illnesses. Medical marijuana became legal in my state in the US and I know several people who have benefitted medically. Marijuana really is a miracle drug

It's only a few hundred bucks and it will get plenty of use over time. Hash brownies or other cannabis infused food totally avoids the smoking issue, but takes longer to have an effect.

Use a vaporizer! Bi products of smoke are still carcinogenic!

The picture set up to illustrate the article is misleading. Medical grass is Israel is not delivered in medical boxes like it is showed on the picture but in plastic bags exactly like it can be bought illegally in the street. It is delivered by the producers themselves to the patients that sometimes are abused by the producers if they don't act as expected by the producers. According to what I see and the patients feedback, medical marijuana is barely efficient against chronic pain but it makes the patients feel better. If the patient is very seriously ill, it does even not make him stoned. But it is very efficient for treating eating disorder. This feedback is the result of 3 years observing patients taking medical marijuana. The law itself is very good as the patients says that they feel better, even if the treatment itself has few effects on the pain itself. To the ones that doubt it, let's be serious, sometimes chronic pain is so strong that even morphine is not efficient.

get a vaporizer so the kid doesn't have to inhale the nasty compounds present in cannabis smoke.

ur kind o people re obsessed badly. why turn this page of science and improvement into your political attack base? its a good thing that this kid havein good care. and all israelis regardless of religion and all pals possible have entery to isr health system. Isr can be many bad things but they re not child killers they dont aim to kill. you can say they dominate use others stuff steal land but u cant say it isr save many lives too. there is no country that threats that good to their enemies in this century. give me one example. please beg i u. Hamas aims to kill kids innocents. isr aims just to prevent it. i seen it with my eyes that pal children and adults taken care of their illness in isr hospitals. there re many problems in isr yes but u cant demonize isr. u dont have the right. cuz isr treat much better to their enemies than BARBAR Europeans!

u re so away from reality there. isr The extreme murderer allows palestinians (not israeli arabs so not their citizens) to full freE ACCES TO İSRAELİ HEALTH SYSTEM even people coming fom abroad non israelis can get a healthcare less expensive than in their country!and a better one probably. i know this im not israeli and my brother is a diabetic we came to isr and hada a better and cheaper health service(including the ticket maybe it becames the same price) ok u ll now say because ure a jew. right? yes im a jew but there was a family from turkey with us with the same condition they came with us and enjoyed the same rights! tell me which country in this world does this? Killin Pal children is not the intention of Isr army blockade in gaza is not the intention! Isr doesnt gain anything from it! tell me one thing they gain from it! just this proofs isr is doin it for defense! tell me one thing they gain from it and ill admit im wrong! they lose money sympathy and gain enemies.

Allowing the use of marijuana to improve the quality of life for a 14yr old Israeli teen (caner pt)yet turning around and denying many Palestinian children access to life saving and sparing drugs. This is the Dr Jekylll and Mr. Hyde of the Israeli medical & justice establishment and I find nothing noble in this lop-sided gesture towards an Israeli teen. Indeed, it shows the disconnect with reality and humanitarian law. And I will go so far to call it an outright institutional murder of Palestinian kids. I recall from reading the Nuremberg Trials such officials were held liable by the court. Dutch

while Alcohol and tobacco should be banned or reduced in the market. alcohol only for religious ceremonies be allowed. alcohol is a drug and more serious than MJ. tobacco is addictive and oncogene cause of all kin o cancer. mj has no clinical risk except for increase of risk of schizophrénie in people who geneticaly has it. but alcohol has the same effect and causes more other psychological illness. idont understand really why its forbidden while alcohol is completely legal? and why people re so afraid of MJ? can anyone explain it to me??

I agree that MJ is harmless but it has psychological effects. and halucinations at this age can be scary for this child who havnt reached his psychological adulthood. but its better than having insupportable pain. for sure its more harmful psychologically. It should be hard. i hope the child gets well soon...

Doctors in Spain injected very aggressive brain tumors with THC and found they diminished tumor mass, my 6 year old son has just had a massive brain tumor removed, why is this treatment relegated to the sidelines of research? THC oil is easy to make and very cheap compared to regular treatments and can't be patented....maybe that's why! See phoenixtears.ca

Good that medical staff promote aleviating the suffering. It is not addiction nor should it be. Teenagers suffer no less oncologic treatments than elders.

They go great with a cup of tea, and my friends love them.

I am sure the smoked cannabis helped the 14 year old with her cancer! If she wants to CURE the cancer, watch phoenixtearsmovie.com and see the oils in cannabis cure numerous illnesses!!!