Redway
18-08-2014, 03:46 PM
Happy Mondays star Paul Ryder has revealed how he treated his 11-year-old son's cancer with cannabis.
The bass player and one of the founding members of the Manchester band, told MailOnline as a recovering addict he would never have encouraged Chico to take drugs.
But when faced with his son's diagnosis - a rare form of soft tissue cancer - the musician said he and his wife took the decision to use cannabis oil.
Chico fell ill in November 2012, complaining of a sore throat.
But just weeks after Christmas his family received the devastating diagnosis - he was suffering the cancer rhabdomyosarcoma.
Doctors in Los Angeles, where the family now live, prescribed a synthetic form of cannabis to ease the side effects of the chemotherapy such as nausea and vomiting.
But Chico's parents took the treatment one step further, giving their 11-year-old son cannabis oil, through his stomach tube - with the full support of his medical team.
Lib Dem minister Norman Baker has become the latest high profile name to call for cannabis to be legalised for medical use.
Paul, 49, originally from Salford, told MailOnline: 'I found myself coaching him on how to inhale cannabis vapour from a vapourising machine.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2727774/Happy-Mondays-star-former-drug-addict-Paul-Ryder-reveals-treated-11-year-old-sons-cancer-CANNABIS.html#ixzz3Al7bgJzP
The bass player and one of the founding members of the Manchester band, told MailOnline as a recovering addict he would never have encouraged Chico to take drugs.
But when faced with his son's diagnosis - a rare form of soft tissue cancer - the musician said he and his wife took the decision to use cannabis oil.
Chico fell ill in November 2012, complaining of a sore throat.
But just weeks after Christmas his family received the devastating diagnosis - he was suffering the cancer rhabdomyosarcoma.
Doctors in Los Angeles, where the family now live, prescribed a synthetic form of cannabis to ease the side effects of the chemotherapy such as nausea and vomiting.
But Chico's parents took the treatment one step further, giving their 11-year-old son cannabis oil, through his stomach tube - with the full support of his medical team.
Lib Dem minister Norman Baker has become the latest high profile name to call for cannabis to be legalised for medical use.
Paul, 49, originally from Salford, told MailOnline: 'I found myself coaching him on how to inhale cannabis vapour from a vapourising machine.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2727774/Happy-Mondays-star-former-drug-addict-Paul-Ryder-reveals-treated-11-year-old-sons-cancer-CANNABIS.html#ixzz3Al7bgJzP