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After treating my dog's cancer with cannabis, he's still alive — more than three
years after a vet said he'd die By Larry Gabriel Detroit Metro Times 27.09.2019
I finally took him to a different vet.
This doctor told me that my dog had cancer.
He had a tumour wrapped around his carotid
artery that would be tricky and difficult to
remove.
He said an operation would cost $5,000 and
the tumours would reappear within a couple
of months. This was in late April 2016.
The doctor said Kai might live until June or
July.
I took my dog home feeling depressed and
guilty that I had not acted sooner.
Kai's decline seemed to continue.
Then one day I remembered that I had been at
a compassion club meeting one day where a
guy had claimed that he'd cured his dog's
cancer with Rick Simpson Oil (RSO).
RSO is a medication derived from marijuana.
It's like a concentrate of cannabinoids.
Simpson, a Canadian, developed the oil and
claims to have used it to cure his skin cancer.
This is the story of my dog
named Kai.
A little over three years ago a walnut-sized
lump appeared on my dog's side.
I took him to a vet and the doctor told me he
didn't handle such things, and downplayed its
seriousness.
No big thing. So I was in no rush to do
anything.
However, a few months later, the lump started
growing fast.
I had other illness and problems in my
household at the time, and I put Kai low on
the priority list.
He became lethargic, laying around and
barely moving.
When he went out in the yard he needed
assistance to climb the three steps to the porch
to get back in the house.
Other lumps began appearing on his body.
His breathing became laboured at times.
At the time I searched around online to see
what it said about marijuana and dogs.
Most sources said that it was toxic for dogs.
One site's information was that it would perk
up your dog for a while but then one day the
dog will have a seizure and die.
That didn't sound too bad. Kai already had a
death sentence and making his last days better
seemed a good idea.
I had run across people with RSO before so I
started searching.
I eventually sourced and bought an oil, and
began administering Kai an amount about the
size of a grain of rice twice a day.
I know a few people who dose 3 times a day
and who swear by this regimen.
I gave it to Kai twice a day to compensate for
the his lower body weight.
I don't know if this is the right thing to do or
not.
I didn't know if body weight enters the
equation.