Should persons with Asperger's consume Cannabis?

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i've had some pretty bad experiences with drugs, so i keep away from all types as much as i can.
legal or not. >.<

Well I would like to see cannibis stay as a class B drug under the UK misuse of drugs act, but I would move cannibis from the schedule 1 (it is classed as a drug of no medical use in the UK) to schedule 2.

People who want to smoke it for fun would still be in the same trouble if they were caught as before, but by moving it from one schedule to another it would make it legal for a doctor to write a prescription without having to obtain special permission from the home office. It is odd in the UK how a doctor can proscribe heroin or cocaine without special home-office permission but cannabis requires special permission.

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Diagnosed under the DSM5 rules with autism spectrum disorder, under DSM4 psychologist said would have been AS (299.80) but I suspect that I am somewhere between 299.80 and 299.00 (Autism) under DSM4.

I voted it should be available to all. It is a plant and is far less harmful to one's health than alcohol is. I am sure it is also far less damaging to Health Service Accident & Emergency Room budgets which cannot be said of binge drinkers seeking medical attention at weekends.

I suffer chronic pain and instead of being able to obtain cannabis to lessen my suffering I am prescribed a horrendous drug manufactured in a laboratory that gives me awful nightmares and withdrawal symptoms every third day....and it makes drug company shareholders lots of money.

Whoever is complaining of the smoke, I am not sure where you live, but here in NC there are strict no-smoking laws for public places. No smoking at places like restaurants or around college campuses or hospitals. I don't see that changing just because its not tobacco. If the day comes that it is legalized I don't anticipate seeing columns of smoke stretching across the horizon. Also, saying we don't need more smoke in the air is silly. It is not comparable to burning hydrocarbons.

Cannabis is shown by some research to be ANTI-cancer causing. What is expected to most people is actually false. Cannabis help dilate airway, and HELP or remove asthma... What is cancer causing in a joint is because most will add tobacco.

It's funny that people say cannabis is headache causing, since it's a proven medicine, and one of the best natural medicine, to help REMOVE headache. What might causes you your headache might come from bad nutrient use in most of street cannabis and the usage of tobacco. A joint with no tobacco and pure quality cannabis would remove your headache. Believe me, I talk from experience!

Also, you CAN'T die from usage of cannabis, it's totally impossible, proven by research... Believe me, their's A LOT of research made on cannabis, in fact it was one of the first medicine used by mankind. It was listed on the first pharmacopoeia (first medicine book) in the year 2737BC. It's known to be one of the OLDEST medicine ever used.

Cannabis is not addictive, no physical addiction is possible with cannabis, only psychological addiction. The cannabis is so much not addictive that it's used in some case of detox for heroin or other hard drug addiction, because it diminishes the addiction pain.

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here's where I'll go soon to get my permit for cannabis consumption.

Here's the medical condition accepted by Canada Healthcare, it's incomplete, or as they say, non-exhaustive list:

- AIDS/HIV : Improves appetite and relieves nausea.
- ADHD : Calms and encourages focus.
- Arthritis : Used as an anti-inflammatory and to help reduce pain.
- Brain/Head Injury : Relief from chronic pain and headaches. Increases focus, concentration, and mobility. Decreases neuralgia.
- Cancer : Pain relief, increased appetite, decreased nausea, sleep aid.
- Colitis : Alleviates pain, spasms and diarrhea.
- Chemotherapy : Helps to reduce or relieve nausea and vomiting.
- Crohn's Disease : Alleviates pain, spasm and diarrhea.
- Epilepsy : Reduces seizure frequency.
- Fibromyalgia : Pain relief.
- Glaucoma : Reduces intra-ocular pressure.
- Hepatitis C : Decreases fatigue, nausea, and chronic pain in muscles and joints. Increases appetite.
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome : Increases appetite, aids in digestion, relieves diarrhea, and decreases bowel spasms.
- Migraines : Relieves migraines.
- Multiple Sclerosis : Reduces spasticity, pain, fatigue, bladder problems and depression.
- Muscular Dystrophy : Relieves muscle spasms and pain. Improves mobility and appetite. Aids in sleep.
- Nausea : Highly effective in relieving nausea.
- Chronic Pain : Reduces pain.
- Paraplegia/Quadriplegia : Relieves muscle spasms and neuralgia.
- Parkinson's Disease : Reduces tremors, spasms, and pain. Increases mobility and appetite.
- Radiation Therapy : Relieves nausea and vomiting. Increases appetite and energizes.
- Seizure Disorders : Reduces seizure frequency.
- Sleep Disorders : Sleep aid.
- Addiction/Withdrawal : Decreases cravings, reduces withdrawal symptoms and relapse potential.

Again, I don't know where you live, but smoking of any kind is not allowed at concert venues here. It is a non-issue.

It caused my migraine. I had to relieve it with sleep and some NSAIDs and I resorted to hydrocodone to relieve them once or twice. That's how bad the headaches were.

The most important thing of all, they need to think about the smoke people will be exhaling into the atmosphere during smoking. How do they feel about it? I have nothing against someone ingesting something I don't have to inhale or be a part of. It's there body, let them do whatever.
However, the cannibus smoke is the real issue, not the actual consumption of the drug. Why not just outlaw the smoke? That would solve everything, You can ingest, but cannot blow the smoke everywhere.
If you can figure out a way to take it without exhaling, go for it.