According to actress Olivia Newton John, cannabis is a healing plant.

The Grease actress, who is 73-years old, has sworn by medical cannabis to help her with her symptoms after she had been diagnosed with stage four breast cancer. This was her third diagnosis since 1992.

She learned that the cancer had spread to her spine in 2017 but is insisting on being optimistic and using cannabis.

“I focus on the positive side of things, no matter what the challenge,” she told the Australian Who magazine, per The Daily Mail.

John discovered the plant when her husband, John Easterling, began growing it on their California farm. Now, she says it really “help[s] with my symptoms” and is lobbying with the Australian government to legalize it for medicinal use.

She told Who that it’s a “healing plant” and “is something that should be available to everyone who is going through a chronic illness or pain.”

It was in a 2020 interview with Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live, that she said cannabis is “extremely important.” “It’s really helped me with the pain, with sleep, with anxiety, I believe with inflammation,” she said.

“I was a little nervous because I don’t like the feeling of any kind of mind-altering thing,” the actress told Good Housekeeping in 2019. “But I started out very slowly, and I adjusted to it, and it’s really helped me greatly.”

“It’s really a decision,” she also told Good Housekeeping. “And once you make that decision, you kind of train your brain to stay there, so it becomes normal … I talk to my body and I thank it for every step it makes of improvement. And I thank it anyway! It’s really a practice because you create your world by what you think. You’ve really got to appreciate things you took for granted.”

Her husband now grows 21 different strains of cannabis and develops all types of herbal remedies “pretty specifically” for his wife.


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