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Fucking pigs. Hope they're proud of themselves 
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A heavily pregnant mother has been taken into police custody and questioned after admitting to using cannabis oil to treat her profoundly disabled three-year-old son's epilepsy.
Police seized the treatment, made form a non psychoactive form of cannabis oil, and questioned Cassie Batten of Mernda, north-east of Melbourne at Epping police station on Thursday afternoon.
The mother left the station with her partner Rhett Wallace following the questioning. It is understood no charges were laid.
Ms Batten declined to comment outside the station, saying "I can't say much at this stage".
The couple could face charges at a later stage of possessing a drug of dependence and introducing a drug of dependence into the body of another.
Ms Batten was interviewed by police after featuring in a current affairs program about the use of a product called Mullaways Cannabinoid Tincture.
During an interview on Channel Seven's Sunday Night, Ms Batten said her son Cooper's health had remarkably improveed after the use of the cannabis treatment.
Born at 30 weeks, Cooper has endured a catalogue of health issues, among them cerebral palsy, epilepsy, infantile spasms and global delay development.
His seizures, occurring almost every minute, were so profound he required around-the-clock care and was unable to walk, talk or process sight to recognise family members.
In desperation, the family turned to the tincture, an alcohol-based form of cannabis oil.
Within 15 minutes of his first dose, his parents said that Cooper began tracking objects with his eyes for the first time and a recent EEG showed he was no longer having seizures.
He now smiles and laughs, can say "mum" and "dad" and just weeks ago sat up for the first time.
On Thursday, Cooper's aunt Shirley Kirk, told Fairfax Media she feared her nephew would die without the treatment seized by police.
"My sister is eight months pregnant and I'm also very concerned about her wellbeing," Ms Kirk said.
" I just spoke to her at the police station and she sounded very stressed. This is just outrageous."
The supplier of the cannabis oil, Kempsey, NSW-based Tony Bower, last month served six weeks of a 12-month jail sentence for supplying the tinctures before being released on appeal.
Tamworth mother Lucy Haslam, who is spearheading a national campaign to decriminalise marijuana for the terminally ill, said the treatment of Ms Batten was "sickening".
"It's just sickening and outrageous," Mrs Haslam said. "They are just trying to look after their child and keep it well. It would be like taking away a diabetic's insulin."
The Battens are one of at least 150 families nationwide using the Mullaways tinctures.
A Victoria Police spokeswoman said the Epping Sex Offences and Child Abuse Investigation Team executed a search warrant at a home in Mernda shortly before 10am on Thursday.
"A number of items were seized as part of an active investigation," she said.
Dr Alex Wodak, president of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation, said there was a lot of “interesting” anecdotal evidence that should not be rejected, but that more research was needed.
“Does it work in childhood epilepsy? My answer is we don't know. We don't have good studies on the use of tinctures and in the absence of [research] I don't think anybody can make any conclusions,” he said.
Epilepsy Foundation chief executive Graeme Shears said he had heard of people using cannabis tinctures to treat epilepsy and reporting effective results, but said more testing was needed.
“We certainly understand when parents or people who have epilepsy, and conventional treatments are not working for them, try alternatives,” he said. “What we would like to have happen is that the appropriate randomised control trials are done for the tinctures…and if it’s proven effective and safe we think it should be legalised and used like any other treatment.”
The Australian Medical Association’s Victorian president Dr Tony Bartone said there was “a growing body of evidence” that cannabis was as an effective treatment for some conditions but that trials must be undertaken to ensure it was safe.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/p...isabled-son-20140710-zt35v.html#ixzz3792K9ykZ
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A heavily pregnant mother has been taken into police custody and questioned after admitting to using cannabis oil to treat her profoundly disabled three-year-old son's epilepsy.
Police seized the treatment, made form a non psychoactive form of cannabis oil, and questioned Cassie Batten of Mernda, north-east of Melbourne at Epping police station on Thursday afternoon.
The mother left the station with her partner Rhett Wallace following the questioning. It is understood no charges were laid.
Ms Batten declined to comment outside the station, saying "I can't say much at this stage".
The couple could face charges at a later stage of possessing a drug of dependence and introducing a drug of dependence into the body of another.
Ms Batten was interviewed by police after featuring in a current affairs program about the use of a product called Mullaways Cannabinoid Tincture.
During an interview on Channel Seven's Sunday Night, Ms Batten said her son Cooper's health had remarkably improveed after the use of the cannabis treatment.
Born at 30 weeks, Cooper has endured a catalogue of health issues, among them cerebral palsy, epilepsy, infantile spasms and global delay development.
His seizures, occurring almost every minute, were so profound he required around-the-clock care and was unable to walk, talk or process sight to recognise family members.
In desperation, the family turned to the tincture, an alcohol-based form of cannabis oil.
Within 15 minutes of his first dose, his parents said that Cooper began tracking objects with his eyes for the first time and a recent EEG showed he was no longer having seizures.
He now smiles and laughs, can say "mum" and "dad" and just weeks ago sat up for the first time.
On Thursday, Cooper's aunt Shirley Kirk, told Fairfax Media she feared her nephew would die without the treatment seized by police.
"My sister is eight months pregnant and I'm also very concerned about her wellbeing," Ms Kirk said.
" I just spoke to her at the police station and she sounded very stressed. This is just outrageous."
The supplier of the cannabis oil, Kempsey, NSW-based Tony Bower, last month served six weeks of a 12-month jail sentence for supplying the tinctures before being released on appeal.
Tamworth mother Lucy Haslam, who is spearheading a national campaign to decriminalise marijuana for the terminally ill, said the treatment of Ms Batten was "sickening".
"It's just sickening and outrageous," Mrs Haslam said. "They are just trying to look after their child and keep it well. It would be like taking away a diabetic's insulin."
The Battens are one of at least 150 families nationwide using the Mullaways tinctures.
A Victoria Police spokeswoman said the Epping Sex Offences and Child Abuse Investigation Team executed a search warrant at a home in Mernda shortly before 10am on Thursday.
"A number of items were seized as part of an active investigation," she said.
Dr Alex Wodak, president of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation, said there was a lot of “interesting” anecdotal evidence that should not be rejected, but that more research was needed.
“Does it work in childhood epilepsy? My answer is we don't know. We don't have good studies on the use of tinctures and in the absence of [research] I don't think anybody can make any conclusions,” he said.
Epilepsy Foundation chief executive Graeme Shears said he had heard of people using cannabis tinctures to treat epilepsy and reporting effective results, but said more testing was needed.
“We certainly understand when parents or people who have epilepsy, and conventional treatments are not working for them, try alternatives,” he said. “What we would like to have happen is that the appropriate randomised control trials are done for the tinctures…and if it’s proven effective and safe we think it should be legalised and used like any other treatment.”
The Australian Medical Association’s Victorian president Dr Tony Bartone said there was “a growing body of evidence” that cannabis was as an effective treatment for some conditions but that trials must be undertaken to ensure it was safe.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/p...isabled-son-20140710-zt35v.html#ixzz3792K9ykZ
