Many people only see marijuana as simply a way to get high, but Corrie Yelland sees the plant it comes from as a medical miracle that cured her of her terminal cancer.
Last night, Yelland shared her story from her home in British Columbia via Skype to an audience of 20 students in the Benjamin Banneker B Room of the Stamp Student Union. Only a year ago, she said, she was suffering awful pain from her terminal anal canal cancer, until she discovered the secrets of cannabis oil – an extract of the cannabis plant, which is used to make marijuana.
While watching Run From The Cure, a pro-cannabis video by Rick Simpson, Yelland was immediately moved by the overwhelming evidence and testimonies supporting the idea that cannabis oil can cure multiple diseases, including end stage cancers. At the time, the cancer had spread to her collarbone, so Yelland began applying the oil topically to that area. Two weeks later, she said, the cancer was completely gone.
“I am 100 percent cancer free,” Yelland said.
Yelland then told the audience that while she was still suffering with cancer, she had met a woman in Texas going through the same situation. This woman chose to go through radiation and eventually died.
“I know if I had not done this oil, I would not be alive today,” Yelland said.
Students for Sensible Drug Policy and NORML Terps hosted the event to show students a different side to cannabis.
“I wanted students to see that this is legitimate and that cannabis actually can be successful in the treatment of diseases,” said senior marketing major and event organizer Justin Kander. “This is something that needs to be addressed now because it has the capacity to save lives.”
After Yelland finished speaking, Kander showed students other testimonies of cannabis oil curing various other diseases, including post traumatic stress disorder, glaucoma, Crohn’s disease, lung cancer, brain cancer and blood cancer.
This information astonished several students in the audience.
“I was shocked by how many different kinds of cancers and diseases can be treated with cannabis oil,” said Jonas Dehudy, a student from Montgomery Community College.
The speakers also argued that just a miniscule amount of cannabis oil has high medicinal potency. Yelland claimed she only used an eighth of a gram of cannabis oil daily.
Some students said the event made them reconsider what they believed about the plant used to make marijuana.
“It was so interesting that you only need to ingest the smallest amount of cannabis oil in order for it to be successful in treating cancer,” senior plant sciences major Crystal Varkalis said.
