She calls cannabis “a healing plant.”
At 73, Olivia Newton-John is enduring her third bout with breast cancer. She was first diagnosed in 1992 and didn’t enter remission until 2013 when she underwent additional treatment. Then in 2017, she learned the cancer had spread to her spine. That’s a hand in life most people would struggle to accept, but the actress is persisting thanks to two things: optimism and cannabis.
“I focus on the positive side of things, no matter what the challenge,” the actress recently told the Australian Who magazine, per The Daily Mail. That’s why she’s committed to helping others with cancer via her own foundation—which is working toward researching and documenting the benefits of plant-based medicine—as well as her own hospital, the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre in Australia.
– Read the entire article at Prevention.
