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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 New Zealand: Grandparents call in lawyers to get terminally ill child medical cannabis 🌿New Zealand: Grandparents call in lawyers to get terminally ill child medical cannabis
The grandparents of a five-year-old with terminal brain cancer have called in a lawyer after doctors refused to consider medical cannabis to treat the child.
In August last year the child was given nine to 12 months to live after being diagnosed with an inoperable tumour on her spinal cord.
Her father also wants her to receive medical cannabis treatment, despite protests from the girl's mother.
Lawyer Rosie Purchas told Morning Report they had been encouraged by reading about the successful treatment of a child with the same condition in America.
She said doctors in New Zealand had refused to offer treatment with medical cannabis because they said there was no supporting evidence, which she said was denying the child's human rights.
"There are no treatments available for the child, she's had 33 doses of radiation which were unsuccessful, she's been given until about May 2016 to to live. It comes down...
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