Miracle of Cannabis
A mum who was given weeks to live after she shunned chemotherapy has baffled doctors by treating her cancer–with illegal super-strength cannabis and Manuka honey. Susan Dhillon, 51, from Slough, was diagnosed with inoperable stage four cancer of the mouth, nose, and lower skull in June 2018. Doctors said unless she had chemotherapy—and then incredibly risky facial surgery–her only option was end-of-life care. But despite the tumors growing at a rate of five percent a month, she shunned the invasive treatment. She started taking a near-pure form of illegal cannabis tablets that her friend makes at home by growing her own cannabis plants and using oil to make tablets. It has an 80 percent cannabinoid strength—78.8 percent over the legal treatments–and contains THC, the principal psychoactive constituent of the drug. Sue, a grandmother-of-one, then buys the drug from her friend at a cost price of around £160 a day. And after five...