We’re going to break a bit of precedent here and share a book of an author who is still alive - with a way we can all potentially help them out.
Rick Simpson is best known as a medical marijuana cultivator and activist. Before he became a pioneer in the medical marijuana community, Simpson was an engineer working in Nova Scotia, Canada. It’s here that a work-related injury changed his life forever.
In the late 1990s, Simpson was removing asbestos from a poorly ventilated hospital boiler room when he collapsed from toxic fumes and knocked himself unconscious. Simpson was given immediate medical attention, however, he continued to suffer from dizziness and ringing in his ears (also known as tinnitus) for years following the incident.
Traditional pharmaceuticals and pain prescriptions failed to provide Simpson with the relief he needed. He started to research alternative forms of treatment and soon began growing and using marijuana. Finally, he was able to manage his symptoms, all from a plant in his garden no less.
Some years later, in 2003, Simpson was diagnosed with a form of skin cancer known as basal cell carcinoma. This led him to further explore marijuana as medicine. Simpson read a study from The Journal of the National Cancer Institute in which Tetrahydrocannabinol or THC (the main psychoactive cannabinoid in marijuana) was found to kill cancer cells in mice. Inspired, he extracted oil from his plants and methodically applied it to his skin. As the story goes, the cancerous growths on his arm disappeared in less than a week. From this point on, Simpson was a true believer in the medicinal benefits of marijuana and was determined to share his discovery, or more likely re-discovery, with the world. It would come to be known as RSO or Rick Simpson Oil - a concentrated cannabis oil.
Simpson hasn’t been present in the public arena for the past few years because in May 2018, he suffered a stroke and has since been in the process of recovery. He’s honorably never tried to sell the oil and has instead also advocated for people to make it themselves, so as you can imagine, it hasn’t been a revenue stream for him. He’s also struggled with many other’s using his name to sell versions of the oil which may or may not follow the recipe well.
He says in the announcement video on his official website for his recent life developments that his only revenue stream in recent years has been from the sales of his book(s). Which I recently purchased a copy of to help him out and I share with you now below. If you read it and really dig it, please do consider purchasing and/or sending him a donation.
Official Site: https://phoenixtears.ca/
His Go Fund Me: http://www.gofundme.com/f/support-rick-simpson
Digital copy and audio book version of his book “Nature’s Answer to Cancer:” https://www.mediafire.com/file/81w0andidpmnk1s/RickSimpson-NaturesAnswerToCancer..pdf https://www.mediafire.com/file/5adtzbf62k1anal/AudioBook_RickSimpson-NaturesAnswerToCancer.mp3