{"id":11713,"date":"2020-11-25T07:04:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T07:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cannabishealthnews.co.uk\/?p=11713"},"modified":"2020-11-27T09:39:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T09:39:18","slug":"community-extends-support-to-cannabis-icon-rick-simpson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabishealthnews.co.uk\/2020\/11\/25\/community-extends-support-to-cannabis-icon-rick-simpson\/","title":{"rendered":"Community extends support to cannabis icon Rick Simpson"},"content":{"rendered":"
Medical cannabis legend Rick Simpson has appealed to his supporters for financial help after suffering a stroke in 2018.<\/b><\/h3>\n
Cannabis campaigners, advocates and patients, whose lives have been changed by Rick Simpson oil (RSO) are being urged to return the favour, as the man behind it has revealed he is facing huge medical bills.<\/p>\n
Over the last 15 years Rick Simpson has become a household name for many of those who have experienced the benefits of medical cannabis.<\/p>\n
A former engineer from Canada, Rick \u2018rediscovered\u2019 the benefits of the cannabis plant in 2004 and published his findings and recipe online.<\/p>\n
He has since become one of the best-known and loudest cannabis activists in the world, hailed for growing the plant in his own garden and giving it away for free to those who could benefit from it.<\/p>\n
It is thought that his work helped paved the way for regulation and legalisation of medical and recreational cannabis in several countries, including his home of Canada.<\/p>\n
Now Rick has revealed that he suffered a stroke in May 2018 which left him paralysed, with doctors doubting that he would ever walk again.<\/p>\n
He has spent the last two and a half years out of the limelight, focusing on his recovery with his wife Danijela, but now his family has admitted that the couple are facing \u2018immense financial challenges\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n