My advocacy for CBD oil will continue, but my struggle with illness cannot: guest opinion {al.com}

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Many of you have followed my struggle with UC and advocacy for CBD oil as a safe, effective therapeutic for multiple conditions, perhaps most prominently epilepsy. My advocacy for access to medical therapy for patients will continue, but my struggle with UC cannot.

I am writing from my hospital bed as in a few days I will be undergoing surgery to remove my colon (Shapira had surgery Dec. 19 and was released from the hospital Dec. 31), a last-resort procedure called colectomy.

An update on Itamar's condition, the work ahead

It will be followed by another either one or two surgeries in order to create what is called a "J-pouch" in order to replace the organ that I am losing. I am likely to regain a high quality of life from this procedure; however, I will suffer the scars of this process: physically, health-wise, and emotionally.

What I will never know is whether medical cannabis or CBD oil might have made the difference. It is unconscionable that patients are undergoing life-changing surgeries instead of being given access to medicine, but this is unfortunately the result of a political system that is wrong-headed and indifferent to the well-being of Alabamians.
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