Personal Story:- I’d rather be illegally healed than legally dead’
This Aussie started juicing cannabis leaves in a
bid to be pain-free - by Katherine Davison
The young Aussie says she would rather be
'illegally healed than legally dead'
Prescription medication failed to help ease the
pain of Crohn's disease
An Australian woman with the debilitating
digestive condition Crohn’s disease has
opened up about why she turned to cannabis
leaves in a bid to ease her pain.
Morgan Taylor, 21, penned a heartfelt blog
post on the subject which she said ‘has been
taboo for way too long’.
‘In the beginning of 2015 my Crohn's disease
took a turn for the worst. It was my senior year
and should have been one of the best years of
my life but ended up being one of the worst,’
Morgan shared.
Morgan Taylor has spoken about how juicing
cannabis leaves helped ease pain from
Crohn's disease
After juicing cannabis leaves, Morgan said
she felt better than she had for years
She said dealing with the stress of year 12,
combined with dealing with her chronic
illness was something she would ‘never wish
on anybody’.
‘I deteriorated fast and had to have surgery for
a colostomy bag, being a young girl facing
this situation was hard to say the least,’ she
said.
After prescription drugs failed to help,
Morgan described the pain of Crohn’s as
‘indescribable’.
‘I was constantly having to take Codeine or
Endone to which I was building a tolerance
and only barely masked the pain, which is
what led me to cannabis,’ she said.
It wasn’t something she did lightly. During
her illness, Morgan researched medicinal
cannabis and read ‘countless stories of people
helping themselves’.
‘I was able to get my hands on some and
starting using it for pain, and let me tell you it
worked better than any pharmaceutical I've
ever tried,’ Morgan said. ‘My nausea was
gone, I could eat without pain and I could
sleep through the night.
‘There's so much stigma behind the use of
cannabis but until you've ever gone through
that kind of pain or witnessed a love one
suffer you have no right to judge the choices
of others.
‘In late 2016 and early 2017 I was able to get
my hands on cannabis leaves that I juiced and
drank every day,’ Morgan said.
‘There are studies being done that show
ingestion of raw cannabis is one of the best
ways to get high dosages of the healing
cannabinoids.
‘During these few months I felt better than I
have in years. I was finally putting on weight,
I was exercising and my Crohn's was going
into remission, something I had never
achieved with pharmaceutical drugs.’
But whilst Morgan claims she has benefited
from her use of medicinal cannabis, she said
she hasn’t had access to it for almost a year –
leading her health to deteriorate.