This thoughtful and sensitive documentary shows the often gut wrenching plights of several families with children battling cancer who are helped tremendously by medical cannabis. I have seen many times the phenomenal results that medical cannabis has in controlling the side effects of chemotherapy, but the fact that correctly dosed appropriately chosen strains of both THC and CBD tinctures can actually serve as tumour shrinking agents, as demonstrated in clinical settings in more liberal countries, is new to me. It's unfortunate that because big Pharma cannot gain from the use of cannabis for medical treatments we are seriously lacking in the studies that we need to know how to use it use to combat many diseases. I live in a country where not only is cannabis legal for medical use, but it is also now legal for recreational use. I have used prescribed clinical grade CBD oil to help with the symptoms of MS and fibromyalgia. But this film makes me wonder if correctly chosen and dosed cannabis extracts could actually help me battle the diseases, MS in particular, at their core as opposed to just providing some relief from symptoms. But alas, if in a country that recognizes that cannabis has medical merits and no longer criminalizes its use recreationally, big Pharma still controls what is studied and what is not based on their own financial agenda . This film is thought-provoking and extremely optimistic in its tone. I won't lie, the Kleenex did come out a few times, but for the most part this film shows children having success treating cancer with medical cannabis and are happy, thriving , and now in remission. This is clearly an advocacy piece so it is one sided in its opinion of the merits of cannabis. But if nothing else perhaps it will prompt people with serious illnesses or their caregivers to entertain the idea and do some research on their own, however limited the resources may be. My only issue with the film is it's title. I actually passed this one over many times having read the title but not the synopsis and thought it sounded like another stoner-made decriminilization piece. Something more indicative of it being a medical documentary would have been much more fitting.
Review of Weed the People
