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Olivia Newton-John Advocates Medicinal Cannabis

Singer and actress Olivia Newton-John has been opening up about her latest battle with breast cancer and recently she talked to Australia’s Daily Telegraph about how she has been managing the disease since its return last year.

Her initial cancer diagnosis came in 1992 when she found a lump during a self-examination, and despite successfully beating the disease with chemotherapy and a partial mastectomy, it returned in 2016, but this time in her sacrum.

Speaking to the newspaper she said that the second diagnosis wasn’t a complete shock and that she was better prepared. “[This time I had] the wisdom to know I had dealt with it before and could do it again,” she stated.

Olivia also revealed that she is responding well to the treatment, adding that she’s found using medical cannabis has been incredibly helpful for pain and healing.

As the star currently lives in California, the drug is easy to obtain and legal. “It’s a plant that has been maligned for so long, and has so many abilities to heal,” she asserted.

She said that she intends to do what she can to make access to medical cannabis easier in her home country of Australia, where it has been legalised but is still difficult to get hold of.

In the UK, cannabis isn’t legal, even for medical use, although there is a cannabis-based product called Sativex that can be prescribed in limited circumstances.

Battling breast cancer is difficult and there are many treatments that can help depending on your personal circumstances. It’s also important to keep a positive body image following surgery, so buying mastectomy tops may help.

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