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Hawkins says pot & whisky cured him

Source: Canadian Press, 04/26/03

TORONTO (CP) - Less than a year after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and operated on, apparently unsuccessfully, Ronnie Hawkins announced he is cancer-free, due to unconventional treatments, which included "whisky and pot," The Toronto Sun reported yesterday.

"I'd have to go into hours to tell you about all the Indian recipes and the stuff that' was sent to me," Hawkins told The Sun, "I don't know which one cured me, but it might have been a combination of all of it. Personally, I think it was the whisky and the pot," he said.

The Hawkins family planned to release the news yesterday. "It was very serious, it disappeared, it's gone, and nobody knows how to explain it," said Hawkins, who chose not to undergo chemotherapy in the wake of surgery.

"I saw the growth myself on the X-ray But it's true, I'm clean as an angel's drawers. The doctors can't believe it. they're doing a lot of thinking ... SARS doesn't stand a chance in my body," Hawkins said. His surgeon, Bruce Taylor was not available for comment Hawkins said he plans to throw together an Ontario tour in the summer.