KATHY-ANNE TROTMAN has never used marijuana in her life.
After being diagnosed with Stage II triple negative breast cancer last year, the 47-year-old attorney now intends to use the drug for palliative care.
Kathy-Anne insists, however, that she will only go the legal route. 
Hence, she and her husband Douglas (right), also an attorney, have joined forces to ask Government to approve their request to fill a one-year prescription for marijuana, written by a doctor in Canada. They have a pharmacist who is registered to practise in Barbados but operates in North America, and can fill the prescription.
“I have never used marijuana,” she said. “I am going about it the legal way. I would have to be in Canada for a length of time to use it. The prescription is valid for a year. I am not going to take a year out and leave my children. I can’t. We have a pharmacist on board. We are trying to move to the next step to get that prescription filled and get Government to look at it and while more research is needed, so far it has been proven that it does work and it does help,” said the determined mother of six. (CM)
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