Cannabis Cancer Treatment Helps New Jersey Boy
Cannabis Helped Make Jake Honig’s Last Days More Comfortable, and Jake’s Parents Helped Change Laws – LPC
Rather than give their son Jake Honig “a gallon of morphine”, Mike and Janet Honig turned to a cannabis cancer treatment. The only problem: under New Jersey law at the time, he could only have two ounces per month. As his cancer progressed and the pain worsened, they found that would only cover a month.
Two days after his death in 2018, they stood by new governor Phil Murphy as he announced a review on medical cannabis.
“I said, ‘This is going to be a lot,” said Mike Honig. He repeated what his daughter Gianna had told him. “You have to go, so other families don’t have to go through what Jake went through.”
Difficult as it was to do, their story did help make it easier for patients in New Jersey to get a cannabis cancer treatment. The Jake Honig Compassionate Use Medical Cannabis Act passed into law about 18 months later.
It’s stories like this that really hit home. Approved drugs including opioids like morphine and oxycotin certainly have their place. But their side effects can be horrendous. For sure, doctors want to know the benefits and risks of cannabis. Those aren’t fully understood and more cannabis research is needed.
However, it’s clear that in certain situations including terminally ill patients, a cannabis cancer treatment cannot be any more dangerous than heavy doses of morphine. In these cases, cannabis should be an option, even if the benefits are only anecdotal at this point.
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