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Legal Weed: Illegally Healed Part 1
Pamela Jacobsen Enjoying a Winter Day
A s of recent, I was fortunate to
be contacted by Pamela Lewis Jacobsen
and I am honored to hear
and recount her story. Speaking
to Pamela you would see and
hear a vibrant individual full of
vigor and life. This couldn’t have
been father from the case not so
very long ago. Pamela’s battle to
survive started in 2010, at the
age of 40. At the time when Pamela
should have been enjoying
watching her last child graduate
her senior year of high school and
a time that she should be starting
to relish her life in comfort, she
it.
Pamela raised her children
with pride and love of a devoted
mother, but before the last
grown could leave the nest, she
was given news no one is ready
to hear.... she had developed
squamous cell carcinoma of the
Bartholin Gland. Pamela’s cancer
specialist said that she was young
and healthy; therefore they were
going to preform treatments
quickly and aggressively. And so
they did, with seven long despairing
weeks of chemotherapy and
treatment had to been stopped
due to Pamela acquiring second
degree burns. She only took one
week to resume treatment, but
it was a devastating side effect
to encounter. Pamela was taken
from a young and healthy individual
to feeling as if she was near-
while just trying to just make it
through her daughter’s last year
of high school.
Once the treatments were
was given the fantastic news that
the cancer had been beaten and
all she had to do is go home and
get better....or so she was told.
In November she began having
severe and frequent stomach pain
with regular visits to doctors and
emergency rooms. Pamela had
lost health, 40 pounds and had
lost her mother from November
On Pamela’s birthday, she
was taken and admitted to the
hospital with infected gall bladder,
pancreatitis and a perforated
colon. Unknowingly, her colon
had been tearing and leaking,
so she was rushed to have surgeries
to be cleansed of gangrenous
areas. This repeated until
surgeons were forced to remove
half her colon and attach ostomy
bags and ileostomy bags and
hospital Pamela just lay watching
life fall apart as she knew it. Due
to trouble coping with feelings of
helplessness and despair before
and after surgery, Pamela’s
husband had left her, leaving her
Twenty plus colon surgeries
later, Pamela decided that
this was not saving her life…so
she started pilgrimages back and
forth to Colorado, so she could
access a new regimen. Pamela
had a chance to stay in Colorado,
so she had packed everything in
her car, including the meds she
had been purchasing at dispensaries.
But before she could make
the move permanent, the medical
refugee was detained by Kansas
sion
with intent to distribute and
possession of paraphernalia.
She was at bottom, or so
Pamela thought. This was until
April of that year when she was
By Mark M. Ward
then facing amputation of her
right leg. At this time she was
accepting
a fate of
cancerous
consumption,
when
Pamela
then began
a high THC
and CBD
regimen
and using
cannabis
oil only for
pain management.
Then miraculously,
her surgeons
were Infection Cannabis Helped Heal.
The Scar on Pamela’s Leg from an
amazed
at the difference in tests since
the new cannabis regimen. Even
more astounding, doctors were
even convinced it had a role in
saving her leg from amputation
and they have to admit it is working.
A once bleak existence
Months on end in the hospital Pamela
just lay watching life fall apart as she
knew it.
is now showing promise and a
new beginning. Pamela is now
completely off of her pharmaceutical
medication, a task she
was told would never be accomplished.
Also, Kansas had recently
reduced her charges to two
misdemeanors and six months
unsupervised probation. Pamela
accounts that she has been truly
blessed to have found her cure
and The Hope Grows Foundation,
whom without their generous donation
of their cannabis regimen;
she feels she would not be here
today. Pamela will now happily
cate,
to live instead of exist and
to be illegally healed.
J13