Dad Banned from Seeing Cancer-Stricken Daughter After Being Jailed For Treating Her With Cannabis

Adam Koessler believes that he has helped his two-year-old daughter, Rumer-Rose to survive. However, the medical-grade cannabis oil he administered to Rumer as a cancer treatment has landed him in jail.

The Australian was arrested on January 2 for giving her the oil after she was diagnosed with stage 4 of rare, aggressive neuroblastoma last Christmas Eve. The doctors had diagnosed that she might have just , 50 per cent chance of survival.

The Brisbane Magistrates' Court has jailed him for the "crime" of having given a minor under the age of 16 the oil, and also for possession of a "dangerous drug", according to independent.co.

On Facebook, 75,000 have signed a petition to ask the authorities to permit him to see his daughter. While his bail petition has been overturned, he still hasn't been able to see her, according to dailyrecord.co.

The petition says: "Medical cannabis has been legalised in many countries and jurisdictions around the globe. There is ample evidence to show that it has many beneficial effects for cancer patients without the harmful side effects and other associated risks of current drug treatments. In fact working in conjunction with the recommended treatment regime, medical cannabis has also been proven to alleviate these adverse side effects."

Rumer-Rose has an 11cm cancerous growth around her spine that pressurized her internal organs. She had been subjected to chemotherapy and also given the cannabis oil by her father. He had said that cannabis should be decriminalized in Australian. She had been administered morphine in the hospital, which made her breathless and unable to breathe when she was disconnected from machines, he reported.

He wrote on Facebook: "What we saw when [my daughter] was given the medical cannabis oil was nothing short of miraculous.

He wrote that her cancer-ridden body was alive and she showed an "instant quality of life". She would say: "Daddy, tummy is not sore".

He said that she could eat well and had even put on some weight. It improved her energy and she wanted to make a trip outside with her father instead of lying on her back. Even the color on her skin had come back. "Her eyes were sparkling again, we looked at each other in complete amazement," he wrote.

Strangely, even though a judge in both the family court and the Brisbane magistrates court had ruled that he should be allowed to see Rumer, the hospital and Rumer's mother did not want to let him visit her. So though he waited at the hospital for hours yesterday, after driving for four hours, he was prevented by the nursing staff, a member of child protection and security guards that he should just leave.