Stacy Landa had breast cancer. She took an FDA approved chemotherapy that killed her heart. She would have been a candidate for a mechanical heart but because medicinal marijuana is illegal on the Federal level, she was denied her lifesaving medical treatment.
Why is this important?
Stacy's chemotherapy worked! She was cancer free. However, the chemotherapy she took to kill her cancer also killed her heart. She had less than 10% usage of her heart and was placed on a pacemaker. She was a candidate for a mechanical heart but because she used Washington State approved medicinal marijuana, she was denied her Federal lifesaving treatment.
She died on July 5, 2018.
These laws need to coincide with one another. A cancer patient should never be denied treatment for using State LEGALIZED marijuana only to be denied lifesaving treatments on a Federal level.
