Pro Cannabis Doctor, Fighting Big Pharma, Found Dead
By Jay Greenberg - Neon Nettle 21 st September 2017
A pro-cannabis doctor, and big pharma activist,
was found stabbed to death at her home, having
died of a knife wound to her abdomen.
Police say they have been unable to determine
whether 40-year-old Dr. Sonya Kay Forbes was
murdered, or committed suicide after she was
found dead in her bedroom.
The former Miss Jamaica-turned-medical
doctor was an eye specialist at Kingston Public
Hospital where she was a senior resident.
She was also part of a study into the cellular
mechanism of the eye which proved that
marijuana may improve vision for patients
suffering from long-term visual impairment.
The research was based on an observation that
Jamaican fisherman who smoked or consumed
marijuana had excellent night vision.
Her studies have found that after applying a
cannabinoid to the eye tissues of tadpoles, the
cannabinoids made certain retinal cells more
sensitive to light, and improved the speed and
which the eye responded to even a dim
stimulus.
Before she died, she was campaigning for
government funding into further research for
the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes. Dr.
Forbes was working for hospitals and medical
practices to move away from their dependency
on large pharmaceutical companies.
Aside from her own research, she was also
helping to promote the use of marijuana in
treating cancer and other terminal illnesses
where the current treatments are extremely
expensive and rarely cure patients.
Dr. Forbes body was found at her premises on
Arthur Wint Drive in Kingston with a fatal stab
wound to the abdomen, yet police say they
haven't made a crucial breakthrough and still
have no leads.
Detectives say they are still considering the
possibility that she had killed herself, despite
friends and family claiming the "happy and
ambitious" young doctor was in "no way
suicidal". "At this time, the matter is still being
treated as a death investigation, not as a murder
or a homicide," one police source said. The
source
said
detectives are
now awaiting
the coroner’s
report
to
determine
how the case
is treated going
forward.
"We
are
now
awaiting the coroner’s
report to
determine the cause of death, the information
will also be used to inform detectives how they
will proceed in the matter," the police source
said.
A date as to when the coroner's report will be
released was not disclosed. Reports are that at
about 7:20 pm, a family member discovered Dr.
Forbes' body inside her bedroom at her home.
She had reportedly died of a stab wound to her
abdomen.
The police were alerted and the body removed.
The St Andrew Central Police are investigating.
Dr. Forbes was a senior resident of
Ophthalmology at the Kingston Public
Hospital.
A number of people took to social media to
express shock and grief over her death, with the
majority of persons speculating that the doctor
was murdered. "This is so gut-wrenching - who
could've done such a cowardly act, to someone
so promising?" one man wrote in response to
the story on Facebook.
Another close friend took to Facebook
suggesting that she had been murdered to
silence her research, as regular criminals never
harm medical professionals as part of "jungle
law", saying: "Now I am sure we are steadily
descending into HELL! "One jungle law I know
of is the fact that bad men do not hurt doctors
and nurses, simply because they realize that
they may need them one day!" The
investigation into her death continues.
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