If diagnosed, can i get a medical marijuana card?

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That is a BS reason to smoke pot, an insult to those with AS, and a slap in the face to those who have medical conditions such as cancer or glaucoma for which marijuana is one of the only things that provides relief from severely painful and disabling symptoms.

I think there are a lot of other options other than pot. And please remember that inhaling pot smoke is just as dangerous to your lungs as any other smoke. It just isn't healthy.

you guys are being squares, just smoke pot, ur already autistic or AS. smoking pots better then being autistic

I disagree. There are many prescription drugs that are worse for your mind and body than marijuana. They are legal and prescribed regularly. Marijuana can help many people who feel the side effects are worth it. You don't have to be dying to benefit from it.

I am not aware of any studies showing that marijuana is beneficial for people with autistic spectrum disease.

Do you have a reference?

Nothing beats cold, hard anecdotal evidence.

Your opinion of what is better and what isn't and what applies for you may not apply to someone else... And you are just high and autistic if you smoke pot while autistic. It might reduce your anxiety or alter your senses in a way that is beneficial to you, but you will still be autistic.

There are no 'studies' apart from a doctor giving a course of marinol to an autistic child and bothering to do the before and after tests (very good results, pdf: http://www.cannabis-med.org/data/pdf/en_2010_04_1.pdf )

Dr R M Hendrick is currently doing a study with marijuana and autistic children, she has been treating them this way for years with great success. We will have to wait for the results. In the meantime there are plenty (hundreds or thousands) of first and second hand accounts to be found on the internet. http://www.healthaffairs.uci.edu/speake ... =500001657

There's over 100 links, most of which are on-topic over at http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=158293914193460

There's mention of autistics self medicating as early as 2002.

Personally I have never claimed, believed or even hypothesised that cannabis is a complete solution to aspergers. For me it takes ashtanga yoga and cannabis. Both. The yoga sorts ME out, the cannabis sorts out my interactions with others.

as that guy said up there, it *really* is better to be on cannabis than to be sober aspergers or autistic and there are ways of knowing this for yourself for sure

Weed smells like s**t and doesn't help autistic people.
Sorry.

apart from the ones it works for so why don't you go piss on your own party instead mate?

So long as I don't have to smell it, it doesn't matter to me if people smoke it. It smells so bad, it gives me a headache.

That's what I'm saying.

Maybe there's a pill that people can take instead of smoking it. That wouldn't bother me. Whenever I think about pot, I think about people I've known smoking joints that have that strong odor, so it's hard to imagine it in the form of a capsule.
I keep forgetting about that option.

yes all paediatric use of medical cannabis is swallowed rather than smoked.

Adults often prefer to vapourise or smoke because it give much finer control over the dose via titration, than you get with eating.

Mixing it with ganja is a good way to make your tobacco habit less cancer-causing (yes there is a study for this, a big one, a very good one).

I don't have a tobacco habit. It just sounds like another excuse for people to exhale more smoke into the air *cough* *cough.*
I can handle brief encounters with cigarette smoke, but I don't want to smell cannabis burning under any circumstance.

Smoke, toke, choke topic

Agreed. I have sensory issues with certain dosurs, and cannibis is one. So is tobacco, car exhaust.