Tuesday, May 19, 2009

"Why I Give My 9-year-old Pot"

Question: why are we giving our nine-year-old a marijuana cookie?

Answer: because he can't figure out how to use a bong. My son J has autism. He’s also had two serious surgeries for a spinal cord tumor and has an inflammatory bowel condition, all of which may be causing him pain, if he could tell us. He can say words, but many of them—"duck in the water, duck in the water"—don't convey what he means. For a time, anti-inflammatory medication seemed to control his pain. But in the last year, it stopped working. He began to bite and to smack the glasses off my face. If you were in that much pain, you’d probably want to hit someone, too.

Read the rest of this great article written by a Rhode Island mom who has found that marijuana ameliorates the effects of her son's autism.

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