A woman claims cannabis oil has 'cured' her terminal cancer.

Joy Smith, 52, from Coventry, was given just six weeks to live after being diagnosed with inoperable stomach and bowel cancer in August 2016.

Desperate for a solution, Ms Smith reluctantly took cannabis-based tablets, alongside chemotherapy, after reading about a cancer patient in the US who went into remission after producing her own marijuana oil.

Nearly two years on, doctors, who described Ms Smith as 'the luckiest woman in the world', are baffled as her scans show just a small amount of the disease is left in her stomach, which she is confident will disappear with continued cannabis use.

As well as approaching a miracle remission, Ms Smith has also recently won £84,000 after entering a TV competition while 'under the influence' of cannabis oil.

She is speaking out to encourage cannabis' legislation for medical use, saying: 'I'm a walking miracle. The doctors call me Wonder Woman.

'Cannabis oil should be legalised for medical purposes - people are dying and chemotherapy isn't curing them.'

Ms Smith takes the nutritional supplement cannabidiol, which is derived from cannabis and is legal in the UK, however, her treatment also contains THC, which is what makes users 'high' and is not permitted.

She is believed to buy the oil illegally online.

Joy Smith (believed to be pictured before) claims she 'cured' her cancer with cannabis oil

Ms Smith was given just six weeks to live after being diagnosed with cancer in August 2016

Her friends (pictured) persuaded her to take cannabis tablets alongside her chemotherapy

WHAT IS CBD OIL AND IS IT LEGAL IN THE UK? Government advisers made it legal to buy CBD supplements in 2016 CBD oil is a legal cannabinoid that can be sold in the UK. CBD contains less than 0.2 per cent of the psychoactive substance THC. Although the oil has been thought to have some medicinal properties, including relieving inflammation, pain and anxiety, there is no conclusive science. Suppliers in England and Wales have to obtain a licence to sell CBD as a medicine. Manufacturers are able to avoid the strict regulation by selling it as a food supplement - ignoring the lengthy process of gaining a medicinal licence. CBD products comes in many forms, the most popular being an oil - which users spray under their tongue - or gel tablets which melt slowly in the mouth. Government advisers at the MHRA found that CBD has a ‘restoring, correcting or modifying’ effect on humans. Cannabis oil, which is different to CBD oil because it contains THC - the compound that gives users a 'high' - is illegal under UK laws. Billy Caldwell, from Castlederg, Northern Ireland, made headlines last April when he became the first Briton to be prescribed it on the NHS. Cannabis oil, which reportedly has no side effects, influences the release and uptake of ‘feel good’ chemicals such as dopamine and serotonin. Advertisement

'I would not be here without it'

Speaking of taking cannabis oil, which she describes as being like eating 'thick black tar' mixed with olive oil, Ms Smith said: 'When you're told you have six weeks to live you'll try anything, trust me.

'I was a bit sceptical about the oil at first as I'd never taken drugs or anything like that - but I know I would not be here today without it. I want to tell everybody.'

After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, Ms Smith was told chemotherapy would only buy her more time.

She started having treatment every two weeks for three days, but had to have the line that delivered her chemotherapy taken out after she developed sepsis.

Ma Smith was unaware her friends had been researching an alternative cancer cure online until she was handed a cannabis-based tablet out of the blue.

She said: 'I didn't want to take it at first; I didn't know what it was.

'Afterwards I felt drunk, all the nurses were looking at me and I was trying to act normal. I couldn't speak, my words just slurred out.'

Ms Smith then started researching cannabis oil online and discovered it had worked for other sufferers.

She said: 'I was looking for reassurance. I wanted to know if anyone had ever been cured by it.

'I was taking it on and off. But when I'd been having it three-to-five times a week, the scans were getting better and then when I stopped taking it the scans showed no change.

'At first I was only taking a tiny drop the size of about half a grain of rice.

'Sometimes it takes hours to kick in and sometimes it's straight away. You do get stoned and you get very tired. It made me want to sleep so I tend to just stay in bed when I've taken it.'

Although reluctant, Ms Smith believes she would not be alive without the alternative therapy

Ms Smith has a small amount of cancer in her stomach, which she believes the oil will cure

'I've beaten science'

Describing her miraculous discovery, Ms Smith said: 'It's impossible, but I've beaten science. My friends kept saying if anyone was going to beat it, it would be me, and I did - I'm still here.

'People are starting learn more about it now, it's what's keeping me here.

'When people are dying something needs to be done. I want to do everything I can to get it legalised for medicinal purposes in the UK.'

'I wouldn't be here now without it.'

A few days after learning she has nearly beaten the disease, Ms Smith discovered she won a competition she entered while 'high'.

She said: 'I would have been stoned in bed and I entered an ITV competition, it must have been a text to win one.

'I'd just got back from the trip when Loose Women phoned me to tell me I'd won £84,000 - I thought they were winding me up!'

After ticking everything off her bucket list after she received the terminal diagnosis, Ms Smith is unsure how to spend her prize money.

She said: 'I did everything I wanted to do. The money doesn't even feel real at the moment, it's just so surreal. It's been a whirlwind.'

She has since won £84,000 from a competition she entered while 'under the influence'