Rosario Dawson says a THC beverage helped her father through cancer treatment. This November, a change in federal law could pull most drinks like it off the shelf.
Rosario Dawson’s father did not want to take the pills.
He had been diagnosed with cancer. He was in California, where a doctor could sit with him and go through the stack of medications he was on, the ones he distrusted, the ones he worried were doing their own damage to his liver and his kidneys. He took some of them off the pile. What he replaced them with, Dawson says, was “THC hemp products.”
“I can’t stress enough what that felt like for my dad,” Dawson says. “He was already doing so much to his body in the medical space, and he’s already very distrustful of that space. The fact that he could just have a [THC] beverage that could make him feel relaxed, that helped with his appetite, that could help him rest, that helped with his pain. All of those things are just giant. They’re tremendous.”
That is where she starts when you ask her about the fight she’s in right now.
Dawson is one of six public figures in Real Drinkers, a campaign from the THC beverage maker Cann against a change in federal law that would pull most hemp-derived THC drinks off shelves this November. Cann says she was not paid to participate. She is an investor in the company and has served on its board for more than four years.
The provision takes effect on November 12 and caps finished hemp products at 0.4 milligrams of total THC per container. A standard Cann has two milligrams. Unless Congress replaces that rule first, the hemp version of the drink stops qualifying as legal hemp.
Author: Javier Hasse / High Times
