Personal Story: -
Hello, My Name is Craig Goodwin, and I
have been asked to give my testimony about
medical Cannabis and how it has saved my
life and changed my life.
First of all I would like to thank everyone for
making this huge effort to come down to
Canberra to help bring change to these
ridiculous laws we have been suffering for 70
years and still are being persecuted by today,
especially the medical patients who were told
over 12 months ago that they would be
accessing medicine by now.
Well my story is much the same as most of
the patients who choose cannabis as their
preferred choice of medication.
I was diagnosed with Hepatocellular cancer of
the liver in late 2012 and given a prognosis of
terminal and maybe 2 years left to live, as you
can imagine this scared the heck out of me,
I am a married man with 4 beautiful children
and I knew that I had to try anything to stay
alive, my wife Rachel and I decided to do
some research and see what if any treatments
we could find, we typed in cures for cancer on
google and with our amazement up popped
page after page of information about
Cannabis curing cancer, we thought what?
Cannabis cured cancer?
So we started reading, my wife is an
environmental Biologist and knows how to
research and gather information, within a few
pages of reading and watching a few
testimonies by terminal cancer patients we
decided that this was the course we would
take, after all the medical fraternity had
offered me no hope but a plant even though
illegal offered me my best hope,
By this time, I was getting sick and weaker all
the time.
My wife started growing cannabis to help
save my life or at least help me be
comfortable.
My Doctor got me onto a drug trial for
Terminal liver cancer patients in NSW, there
were 10 people in NSW chosen to do this trial,
it consisted of chemotherapy, radiation and a
course of 36 tablets a day for up to 40 weeks,
At the time of starting this treatment we had
already grown enough cannabis to start
making oil, so I started to ingest cannabis oil
about a week before I started the drug trial.
I told my Doctors that I was taking cannabis
oil for cancer and also asked them about the
endocannabinoid system to which they just
stared at me blankly so they knew absolutely
nothing about it.
Wow what hope did I have if these doctors
that were treating me knew nothing about the
endocannabinoid system,
They preferred I didn't take oil while doing
treatment, after starting the drug trial I went
downhill fast, I was losing my hair, I lost 25
kilo in weight my teeth were falling out and
the burns to my arms and back were
horrendous,
At the same time, I was consuming up to 5
grams of oil a day as well as juicing and
smoking cannabis,
After 8 weeks of treatment I did scans and the
test that you do with cancer and to everyone's
surprise my cancer was gone.
I stayed in treatment for 20 weeks when they
decided the pharmaceutical meds were
making me so sick they nearly killed me so
they stopped treatment,
I found out later that out of 10 people I was
the only survivor of treatment and not only
survived I was 100% clear of cancer and my
liver was repairing at a rate my hepatic
specialist had never seen,
It's nearly 5 years and I'm still 100% cancer
free.