Woman who tried to treat daughter’s cancer with CBD found guilty

CLACKAMAS COUNTY, Ore. — A Wilsonville woman who tried to treat her daughter’s liver cancer with CBD oil and fled with her to Las Vegas has been found guilty of custodial interference and mistreatment.

The 39-year-old Christina Gale Dixon faces 19 months in prison, according to the Oregonian. 

In 2020, friends of the family told KGW that Dixon didn’t believe chemotherapy was helping her 13-year-old daughter, Kylee, and was using CBD and other holistic treatments to care for her daughter at home. Doctors wanted to take out what was left of the tumor and suggested traditional medical care, and in 2019, Dixon ignored a state order to bring her daughter in for medical treatment, fleeing to Las Vegas, where the FBI tracked the pair down. 

Kylee was taken into state protective custody, and Dixon turned herself in to police in Clackamas County. Kylee went into state foster care, and underwent surgery to treat liver cancer three years ago at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital. She then returned to her mother after the Oregon Department of Human Services dropped its juvenile case following successful surgery to remove a cancerous tumor.

The case caused much uproar from the alternative medicine community. Though CBD may alleviate some symptoms of cancer, such as nausea and pain relief, the substance cannot actually cure or control the disease. 

Nor can it cure COVID-19, as Portland CBD store claimed in 2020. The state attorney general’s office told the owners the sign, which claimed that CBD oil could boost immunity against COVID-19, violated the Unlawful Trade Practices Act. 

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