KTLA 5 news Los Angeles has reported on a family in southern California who, after a series of worsening autism symptoms exhibited by their son, resorted to medical marijuana. The results have been wonderful, according to the boy's parents.
Ten-year -old Sam's father told reporter Cher Calvin that his son had been hurting other children at school, pulling the television down, destroying furniture, etc .He would have to put the boy in a hold for an hour, while he had spasms, until he eventually calmed down.
The parents had consulted the conventional 'experts'; doctors who put Sam on prescription drugs, which resulted in the boy gaining twenty pounds. "He was getting more dangerous, bigger, stronger", recalled Sam's mom.
"At their wits end and facing the need to institutionalize son", KTLA reported, the family then opted for an unconventional and controversial treatment: medical marijuana. They report that it has been "very calming". They had initially made an appointment with a medical canabis doctor.
They now grow Sam's "new medicine" in their back yard; the father took out his tomato plants to make room to grow the medicine in a concentrated form. His "pent up rage" and anxiousness went away, they said. They started the treatment when he was 8, and give the canabis as needed, which is not necessarily every day. The father puts it in a piece of melon and gives it to his boy; "that's good, yeah".
Within 20 minutes effects were clear, recalls the reporter who spent some time with the family.
He was "calm, relaxed and social" after taking his "spec of hash" in front of the news crew.
"The more I tell people the more comfortable I am", says the mother when asked how she explains this treatment to others. A Dr. Tolcher, consulted by KTLA, says this is intriguing, but needs more research.
"It was just a medication that gave us results we were hoping for", says Sam's dad, who can now help his son, "instead of depending on doctors". Sam is now smiling and laughing again, reports his mom.
Calvin notes that the family has "followed the letter of the law" and grows the canibis as allowed under California Prop 15. You can watch the KTLA 5 News Report here.
Meanwhile, the feds continue to raid medical pot clinice throughout California. The National Organization for the Reform of marijuana laws is a non-profit, public-interest lobby that opposes marijuana prohibition, and reported today that "health-related costs per user are eight times higher for drinkers than they are for those who use cannabis, and are more than 40 times higher for tobacco smokers, according to a report published in the British Columbia Mental Health and Addictions Journal'.
Presenting a comprehensive history of marijuana prohibition, DrugLibrary.org reports that "Dr. William C. Woodward, legislative counsel of the American Medical Association...was roundly insulted for his audacity in daring to question the wisdom of the 'MARIHUANA TAX ACT OF 1937". which they report was "the first assertion of federal authority over marijuana".
Comments
Excellent article. Prohibition continues, although since the medical merits of cannabis have been documented (and the AMA has altered its stance on rescheduling the drug), its unfathomable to me why they won't move it from Schedule I.
DEA and other agents of the drug war want to continue to reap billions in allocated tax funded budgets. Continue to seize properties and money from drug dealers that owe thier existance to these agencies. They really don't care about sick people or if the drug really isn't that harmfull. Business is business.
DEA and other agents of the drug war want to continue to reap billions in allocated tax funded budgets. Continue to seize properties and money from drug dealers that owe thier existance to these agencies. They really don't care about sick people or if the drug really isn't that harmfull. Business is business.
This is incredible! I've been searching for a solution for my own sons conditions. I hate the fact that the Dr's have him shoveling down legal narcotics. Parents really ought to read the piece of paper the comes with your childs meds, some of those meds are down right scary.
I can't wait for the RE-legalization of Cannabis so we can start reaping the benefits of this amazing plant, and start getting the narcotics (thanks to big Pharm) out of this country's system!
My younger brother died of kindey, liver failure due to all the pharmicitual drugs he took that did not work.
Yes, he had autism.
Why does the media keep insisting that the 'natural' plant is 'the concentrated form'???
They said they gave him HASH, idiot. Learn to read.
Its ridiculous that such a beneficial drug that one can not OD on is shunned.
Great article!
Challenging the medicinal benefit of cannabis is absurd. The fact that the U.S. Govt. owns numerous aging patents on a PLANT, in conjunction with the increased figure of 25% of the U.S. recognizing the legal medical use of a PLANT, truly epitomizes the significance of the world-wide-web. Knowledge is only a search engine away people.
10 months old, 10 years old or 110 years old; I didn’t know that relief had an age requirement. After all, isn’t that all a parent wants for their kid…relief? Better yet, relief naturally. Get over the stigma and get educated. Suggest those in doubt go help/visit some kids in the hospital with cancer. I'm all about smiles and being thankful for sunrises. For some, these blessings are easily forgotten and/or seldom appreciated.
I speak as a long term user and medical beneficiary.
Peace, Mr. Funkcandy
legalize it 4 everybody and the world woulb be a better place for everyone
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