Mom Gives 7-Year-Old Medical Marijuana To Combat Chemo, Against Dad's Wishes

[Truth Seeker]

A seven-year-old girl suffering from leukemia is one of Oregon's youngest medical marijuana patients.

Her mother says she gives her daughter marijuana pills to combat the effects of chemotherapy, but her father, who lives in North Dakota, worries about the effects of the drug on her brain development.

Mykayla Comstock was diagnosed with leukemia last spring. Her mother treats her with a gram of cannabis oil daily, The Oregonian reported.

Mykayla's mother credits the drug for the leukemia's remission. "As a mother, I am going to try anything before she can potentially fall on the other side," said Erin Purchase, 25, who with her boyfriend administers Mykayla's cannabis.

The girl says the drug helps her eat and sleep but also makes her feel "funny."

"It helps me eat and sleep," Mykayla said. "The chemotherapy makes you feel like you want to stay up all night long."

Mykayla's father, who is divorced from the girl's mother, was so disturbed by his daughter's marijuana use that he contacted child welfare officials, police and her oncologist. The father, Jesse Comstock, said his concerns were prompted by a visit with Mykayla in August.

"She was stoned out of her mind," said Comstock, 26. "All she wanted to do was lay on the bed and play video games."

Comstock, who works in a North Dakota oil field, pays child support to Purchase and covers Mykayla's health insurance. He said he observed strange behavior during an August visit and took Mykayla to a private lab, where technicians detected THC levels of an adult daily marijuana user.

Gladstone police contacted the girl's mother, examined Mykayla's medical marijuana paperwork, then told Comstock there was little they could do.

Comstock, who used pot in the past, said he doesn't object to people over 16 using medical marijuana. But he worries about his daughter's well-being and the potential for addiction.

"She's not terminally ill," Comstock said. "She is going to get over this, and with all this pot, they are going to hinder her brain growth.

"It's going to limit her options in life because of the decisions her mother has made for her," he added.

Oregon law requires no monitoring of a child's medical marijuana use by a pediatrician.

The law instead invests authority in parents to decide the dosage, frequency and manner of a child's marijuana consumption.

Many doctors worry about introducing a child to marijuana when they say other drugs can treat pain and nausea more effectively. Purchase believes marijuana heals, and credits the drug for curing her stepfather's skin cancer.

She herself is an Oregon medical marijuana patient, and her boyfriend is Mykayla's grower. She is so convinced of the drug's safety that she consumed it during the pregnancy and while breastfeeding her second child.

When her symptoms are especially bad, Mykayla's mother and her mother's boyfriend will feed her cannabis-infused food. She's had up to 1.2 grams of cannabis oil in 24 hours, the rough equivalent of smoking 10 joints.

Purchase said Mykayla's first oncologist called the marijuana use "inappropriate." She has not informed her new oncologist about the treatment.

With marijuana, Purchase said her daughter has been able to fight past the chemotherapy and return to a sense of normalcy.

"She's like she was before," her mother said. "She's a normal kid."

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[drmaddogs]

One of the most common prescriptions, by far, for this condition the child is in is Marinol. My Sister-in-law is a 30 year nurse(floor supervisor). We were talking about the recent State changes and got into the discussion. I related a 1976 accident where I was ejected from a car, and was treated with MJ oil once to see if the spinal pain would subside. It did just that. I did uncomfortable and later I was to find out I was over prescribed.
Marinol is a natural concoction of THC, my relative explained, and described this very same condition(cancer-leukemia) as the most common where Marinol is used. When I asked about the most common complaint from the Marinol as being described as jittery from patients, she laughed and said her observations were that the the only problem she saw was the patients wanted more pills. That was the level of positive effects.
She also said that the most common alternative treatment was an opiate for pain, possibly another for sleep(usually a 'Fluorine based' toxic).

So much for 'other drugs'. Whom wishes to expose a child to opiates and possible additional liver damage beyond what the chemo will do to her?

The statement that she is not terminal certainly is presumptive. Untreated she is terminal. Treatment does not always work. Any less toxic medications improves her chances, both from the cancer treatment and the side effects of the 'other drugs'.

If her father wants to put in a relevant condition analysis of patient condition under 'other drugs' AND chemo, so as to compare
treatment results..."stoned out of her mind", I suggest he visit a children cancer ward. There he will definitively see, "stoned out their minds", also ineffectual treatment. Those kids do not 'play video games' but they do 'lay around', bravely enduring their disease where there is little feeling in their appraisal of their own condition as to be feeling 'funny'.

Essentially, this is a 'Hit piece' article. Condemning alternative and more natural approaches to treatment, by both the Father(due to ignorance), and the " Mykayla's first oncologist called the marijuana use "inappropriate."" whom was not availed the necessary training and knowledge about cannabis oils (THCa and CBDa) as the studies are little circulated. Where the Dept of Health and Human Resources has licensed 50 different applications for THCa from the patent of the artificial THC molecule.

Doctors are limited to FDA approved treatments. They seldom wish to be associated with other treatments. But since restrictions on the FDA
are bound by the Autocrats in the Whitehouse staff for Drug policy, there is no "Appropriate" use, ever, in any way, at any time. As a child or an Adult. Use of MJ based medicine is only approved of if it is Marinol. Then suddenly, it is "Appropriate".

 

[kandysman]

``considering that any one of the "symptom alleviating drugs" that they say she should be taking instead have side effects sometime trumping the symptoms themselves and all of them would be toxic and life threatening if overdosed(which happens more than you think because they often don't work at all)And she could ingest 1000 joints a day without overdose i really don't see why not.We will probably find that very young people with severe diseases may benefit most of all from medical cannabis because of the fact that they are still developing there endocannabinoid system. Bravo to the mom for doing what was right by her daughter instead of letting an unwarented stigma affect her daughters recovery;-)