A 14-year-old being treated in the oncology unit of Rambam Medical Center in Haifa has received permission to receive medical-cannabis, better known as marijuana.

The young girl is experiencing severe pain from the chemotherapy treatments, a depressed appetite, and other unpleasant side effects of the treatment. Her difficult condition compelled her medical team to recommend the cannabis treatment, which has been approved. She began the treatment on Friday, which will G-d willing improve her condition significantly regarding the difficult unwanted side effects of the chemo.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)