Cannabis: Alternative Treatment to Pharmaceuticals

This 20/20 clip features the use of cannabis as a treatment for autism.

Interviewed is expert Dr. Grinspoon who is an Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Grinspoon was senior psychiatrist at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston for 40 years.

When Grinspoon began studying marijuana in 1967, his intention was to "define scientifically the nature and degree of those dangers" but as he reviewed the existing literature on the subject Grinspoon reached the conclusion he and the general public had been misinformed and misled.

Hester-Perez made her decision to try giving her 10-year-old son, Joey Perez, medical marijuana after his weight had become dangerously low due to his unwillingness to eat. She said that at the time she began the approach, he weighed only 46 pounds.

"The marijuana balanced my son," said Hester-Perez, noting that she has never used marijuana herself. "My son had self-injurious behaviors. He was extremely aggressive, he would run out of our house... he was a danger to himself and others."

Source: WIKIPedia/20/20

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Cannabis
• Autism
• Medical Marijuana
• Hester-Perez

[peterpotpie]

It's time to allow people to use the medicine that helps them.

Legalize it!!!!!!

[OhioFreebyrd]

I like the part where the mother says, it don't matter what other people think. I agree 100%, because most of them DON'T think, they live by the bullshit that the government has brainwashed them to think, Educate yourselves people, marijuana is better than any manufactured drug out there.

[raulibiza1]

@panzaiv . The real reason why is forbident,is that it helps users to be more real humans, wiser and freer beings instead of just ship, like most people are. It helps the user to become him/her self, with a more clear vision about the main things in life, that non users and consecuently less ignorants...

[raibanos]

@nirvava2295

You're absolutely right!

[nirvana2295]

I would Much rather use an organic none toxic substance than use a prescribed pain killer that will probably leave me dead in my tub like Whitney Houston.... Nuff said

[faro0485]

@ASESINA95 You forgot the 300k of people dying from pharmaceuticals and vaccines per year... I think thats in one country alone

[faro0485]

@panzaiv it's a pain killer.

[EarthElla]

I applaud the parents who are willing

to go by their own inner voice and give

their kids a chance to live a better life.

Thanks for this video...~peace

[panzaiv]

the government will never legalize  cannabis for 1 reason.....cannabis is plan that you can grow your self so if everyone does that the government has no income from TAXES.

[dedhed8824]

Why would people make her feel bad for giving her son something natural? She is giving her child anti-psychotics and that's completely fine? We live in a corrupt society.

[RunfromtheHeathen]

Cannabis DOES help with OCD. How do I know? Ive been dealing with it since i was 16. Does it make me sedated and "dumbed down" as the guy in the video proposes? Perhaps. But so do antidepressents and anti anxiety meds. SUCK IT BIG PHARMA!

[bermudaguy1]

how many of you would like this kid to have a good laugh?