Medical Marijuana Offers Hope for Hospice Patients – Cannabis News
Questions about what cannabis can offer the sickest, most heavily medicated patients, those in hospice care.
In 2013, after her mother, Myriam, was diagnosed with brain cancer, Diana Peña, a makeup artist and hairstylist in Rancho Cucamonga, began researching whether cannabis could help.
Doctors had given Myriam a prognosis of three months to live, Peña said, and there was “not a whole lot they could do” except extend her life a bit.
But with cannabis treatments, Peña said her mom outlived expectations by more than a year, with a better quality of life than she could have expected without it.
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Alex Halperin ~ LAWeekly.com ~