As more and more children are diagnosed with autism, there's a growing need for alternative treatments.
And, a mother in Brea, Calif. says medical marijuana has resulted in vast improvements in her autistic son, reports "Early Show" National Correspondent Hattie Kauffman.
Mieko Perez tells Kauffman, "Everyone who came to my home was watching me watch Joey die. He was deteriorating hourly."
Joey is severely autistic, Kauffman explains, so uninterested in food he was wasting away. At ten years old, he weighed just 48 pounds. Even bulky Halloween costumes couldn't disguise his frightening look of starvation. He basically only ate, like, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for four years, Mieko recalls.
But, claims Mieko claims, it all changed with marijuana brownies.
She says not only is Joey eating more, he's communicating. "We're seeing Joey come out!" Mieko exclaims. "He's never made noises... We didn't even know he could make noise until the first batch of brownies."
Medical marijuana is often prescribed for cancer and AIDS patients who need to gain weight, Kauffman notes, but a prescription for a child is unusual.
The American Academy of Pediatrics opposes legalization of marijuana, but supports more research.
And, Kauffman stresses, though there's absolutely no evidence marijuana helps with autism symptoms, Mieko insists it has improved her child's life.
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Comments
I think this is great! I would never promote marijuana to a child either. But, I also know that if I was in a position like Mieko, I would be willing to try anything! Its wonderful that her son is improving because of a substance that has such a bad reputation.
prescribing a child marijuana would never be promotable to a child,but if in terms it involves a child’s life and the decision made between a mother,a physician and his profession decision made to help the child without the state from deciding whether a child should live or die is a choice that not only the senate but the congress should take into cosideration and into law that wouldnt afect the rights of people nor the laws that are made to protect people and thier intrest
heres a law that i wrote in regards to mieko..
MIEKO’S LAW:IN THE BEST REGARDS TO A CHILD OR CHILDREN WHOSE LIFE IS INCAPACITATED BY NATURE AND BY HEALTH IF IN A STATE OF LIFE AND DEATH AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE HEALTH OF THE CHILD,A MEDICAL DECISION BETWEEN THE PHYSICIAN AND CONGRESS SHALL TREAT AND DIAGNOSE THE HEALTH OF THE CHILD REQUIRING THE EXTENT OF MEDICAL TREATMENT.
When you compare the long lists of side effects, adverse drug reactions, toxicity, and addictions of the approved medications given to both children and adults, cannabis is by far the least harmful and most helpful.
For supposedly being the most intelligent species on the planet, we sure can be stupid about some things.
i think that if it should include a child’s life the person regarding the child should be able to do whats nessisare for the child to live and become better mentally and physically strong through whatever the causes.
yeah well guses what terry i certainly do not agree! what if you had a kid and that kid was withering away?