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Medical marijuana proves a valuable treatment for autism 		   
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I am certainly not an advocate for drugs-either legal or illicit. I have never smoked and I don’t care at all for alcohol.

And I agree with Oliver Wendell Holmes when he said, “I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea it would all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.”

Having said that:

In ARRI 16-2 (The American Journal for Autism Research) we published a letter from a mother in Florida whose very large autistic son changed from a sweet, loving boy to a teenager who flew into unpredictable rages which “were usually associated with self injury, aggression and property damage.” She went on, “At times I had to lock myself in the bathroom; otherwise he would attack me. We gave him many medications, but nothing worked.”
A friend suggested a solution: a brownie with marijuana baked into it. “Soon after he ate the brownie,” she said, “my son’s anxiety disappeared, and his sweet, loving behavior returned. He shows no signs of being under the influence of a drug. He now receives one marijuana brownie and several doses of Marinol, which contains the active ingredient in marijuana, each day. This has clearly saved my child’s life and my family’s life.”
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08/29/2008by: shannonj
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