Team Landon Cannabis 2013: “He Started Getting Better”

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The gripping journey of Landon Riddle includes so many twists and turns as his mom fought his deadly cancer with Cannabis oil. Facing hurdle after hurdle as she watched him start to fade away from Chemotherapy there were many times desperation set in with the fear he wouldn’t make it. His little body dwindled from the Leukemia treatments that took such a toll his mom reached out to the famed Stanley Brothers in Colorado back in 2013.
She moved from Salt Lake City to Colorado Springs so that Landon could get the cannabis medicine he needed. Landon started the cannabis oil treatment in January of 2013. Like a miracle, cancer started to fade, causing doctors to start asking questions. Sierra Lynn Riddle continued the cannabis treatment and took Landon off of chemotherapy in July. But, unfortunately for her not all agreed with her which led to Child Protective Services becoming very invasive in their lives, this came about due to a doctor who felt he needed Chemotherapy to stay alive.

“It was as if a miracle had happened! He was smiling again & started to eat again!” His mom wrote about how he started to recover quickly and documented it with photos. Enjoy this sneak preview into her upcoming book (s) about Cannabis and how it healed Landon and others she’s helped through the years since these photos were taken 8 years ago.

Excerpts from Sierra Lynn Riddle:

“As the weeks went on the Chemo’s side effect seemed to lessen & lessen. His counts went up & he was able to leave the house a couple of times a week (he had been home-bound for months with low counts before Cannabis). His severe neuropathy, caused directly by one of the Chemos (he could barely walk 10 feet unassisted at the worst part of it) was healing itself! His reflexes started regenerating & the vomiting decreased to 10 times per day or less. He was up & awake most of the day now, walking a little, laughing & trying to be as normal as possible.

Friends, Family, everyone began to see the difference in Landon

“But, I think the most important & the most miraculous thing was that Landon started to ENJOY LIFE again! He was finally able to do more than sit on our couch or in bed & puke for weeks on end. He was finally able to eat & enjoy it AND keep it down!! Landon was finally able to LIVE again.”

“Cannabis was starting to give him back what Chemo had stolen!” -Sierra Lynn Riddle, 2014

“Watching my son “play” after what he had endured & was still enduring was a pivotal moment for me in this journey!”

“Landon was now doing amazing & his Doctors in Utah could not figure out why! Especially since he had done so badly with the Chemos for so long. The Cannabis was doing far more for Landon than just helping with his pain & nausea. It was helping Landon on a cellular level as well! The weekly blood results were showing us in black & white the powers of Cannabis! The amount of Blood & Platelet transfusions needed after Chemo was cut by 75%, he no longer needed the IV promethazine or morphine! In fact, Landon no longer needed ANY pharmaceuticals for pain, nausea, anxiety, sleep, or night terrors! Cannabis took the place of around a dozen or more medications filling my cabinets. His Immune System was kept high & he no longer caught every virus that floated by in the air! This made life immensely better for Landon as he was about to get out of the sterile environment & participate in life again.”

When we look 8 years back into the History of Landon Riddle’s Cannabis Journey it allows us to see some of the issues that still plague parents today. It would seem with all of the experts abound there would be no issue with continuing this type of alternative medicine for kids with health issues of all types with crowds cheering on, but that simply isn’t the case. Parents face changing regulations, state entities that question their desire to use a plant, doctors that have still not become educated in the endocannabinoid system which modulates the major functions of our body and keeps everything in good working order – a term known as Homeostasis.
It’s so beautiful to read the stories like Landon’s as they give us hope and show that the plant truly does heal. His warrior spirit has brought him to the today his mom and those in Landon’s life enjoy. The ability to battle like a champion and come out of it on the other side of chemotherapy, toxic chemicals used in his treatment, and overcome shows everyone in the world of medicine and beyond that the Cannabis Plant should have never been villanized nor marginalized. The beautiful bounty of nature allowed this precious young child to grow up to soon be a young man.
And that’s what Cannabis does that’s so incredible – it gives a future. We see this every day with Genevieve and her journey with severe Autism and Epilepsy, without this glorious plant her life wouldn’t be what it is today. There would be no dream of a carousel to celebrate at all – we need to embrace cannabis for what it is. It’s not a cure-all with a guarantee – it’s the nature that our maker intended for us to use.