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About Rick Simpson
In 2003, after being diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma and rejecting conventional treatment, he applied a thick, dark cannabis extract to his skin, and watched the tumor vanish within days. That moment catalyzed a global movement: he began distributing free RSO to thousands of patients, documenting outcomes in handwritten logs and grainy VHS tapes, all while evading Canadian authorities who seized his equipment and charged him under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. His extraction method, using naphtha or ethanol to isolate high-CBD, high-THC whole-plant oil, was deliberately low-tech and replicable in garages and basements, a direct challenge to pharmaceutical gatekeeping. He never patented RSO, insisting it belonged to humanity, and spent years testifying before parliamentary committees, not as an expert chemist but as a witness who’d held dying neighbors’ hands while their pain subsided. His legacy isn’t just oil, it’s the stubborn insistence that plant-based medicine shouldn’t require a prescription, a lab coat, or permission.
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- “What made you choose naphtha over ethanol for your first RSO batches in 2003?”
- “How did you adapt your extraction process when Health Canada raided your home in 2009?”
- “Did any of the cancer patients you treated with topical RSO get follow-up biopsies confirming remission?”
- “Why did you refuse to trademark 'Rick Simpson Oil' despite lawyers urging you to?”