{"id":6632,"date":"2019-05-28T19:58:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T19:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=248350"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:12","slug":"olivia-newton-john-talks-about-her-use-of-medical-cannabis-during-cancer-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/olivia-newton-john-talks-about-her-use-of-medical-cannabis-during-cancer-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Newton-John Talks About Her Use Of Medical Cannabis During Cancer Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/span>Photo: TODAY and In Your Area<\/a><\/span>Medical cannabis is a controversial topic in the United States and an even more controversial topic in Australia, where Olivia Newton-John<\/a> is from. Yet the Grease<\/em> star has been open about her use of it during her cancer battle. She\u2019s one of the many people that talk about their use of medical cannabis in the documentary called High As Mike<\/em>.<\/span>The documentary is apparently about \u201cthe difficulties Australians are having getting medicinal cannabis,\u201d according to the 70-year-old. \u201cI\u2019m not encouraging [anyone] to break the law, but I know what I would do,\u201d Newton-John says.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: TODAY<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Newton-John first battled cancer in 1982 and underwent a partial mastectomy in addition to reconstructive surgery. She then was diagnosed a second time in 2013 and a third time in 2018. Doctors believed her back pain was due to sciatica, but they later confirmed that the breast cancer had metastasized to her sacrum, as a tumor was found at the base of her spine.<\/span>\u201cI use a lot of cannabis in my healing,\u201d she said to Yahoo! Lifestyle recently. \u201cIt helps me incredibly with pain and sleep.\u201d<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Denise Truscello<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>The actress says that she, like most other people, was hesitant about using cannabis as a means of healing. Then she found out that it\u2019s a huge aid in helping pain, insomnia, and depression, which are just some of the things she experienced as side effects of her cancer.<\/span>\u201cIt\u2019s an astounding plant, a maligned plant. However, it\u2019s aiding such a significant number of individuals,\u201d she said.<\/span>Newton-John says she and her husband grow their own cannabis on their ranch in California. \u201cHe [her husband] grows the plants and makes them into a liquid for me. I take drops maybe four to five times a day,\u201d she says.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: In Your Area<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Newton-John was pleased to take part in treatment at her own Australian cancer treatment hospital, the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre.<\/span>\u201cMetastasis<\/a> happens, so it wasn\u2019t a total shock to me\u2026But the wonderful thing was that this happened when I was in Australia\u2026I ended up in my hospital for three weeks\u2026I got to experience the programs that I\u2019d worked so hard to convince them are important. And they were.\u201d<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Kathryn Burke<\/a><\/span>Be sure to SHARE this article with your thoughts on Olivia Newton-John\u2019s use of medical cannabis! She\u2019s also put out a new memoir detailing everything about her cancer battle, so for those who are interested, click here to purchase her memoir<\/a> on Amazon (available in both digital and hardcover)!<\/span>Check out an interview that Olivia Newton-John did with Dr. Oz about her use of medical cannabis and how much it has changed her life:<\/span>Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span>Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo: TODAY and In Your AreaMedical cannabis is a controversial topic in the United States and an even more controversial topic in Australia, where Olivia Newton-John is from. Yet the Grease star has been open about her use of it during her cancer battle. She\u2019s one of the many people that talk about their use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44500,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632\/revisions\/44500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}