Should persons with Asperger's consume Cannabis?

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They're many way to remove the smoke, vaporisation, direct ingestion, water bong also help diminsh the quantity and temperature of the smoke.

I know some people might get allergic reaction to cannabis, but again, that might be related to other things in the joint or in the way the weed was grown.

eddie82, I live in Quebec, Canada. It's the most "socialist" province of Canada. Cannabis smoking everywhere is not accepted in Canada, but in Quebec, I can smoke pot in front of my school, close to police, or in the street. It's a widely accepted drug by most people here. You won't get arrested because you smoke pot, but you will if you roll a joint in a public place! Even then, I saw some guy rolling a joint on a table at a restaurant, or in the subway,... It's not like Amsterdam here, but close! Btw, cannabis is the only drug accpeted this way here!

Well, a few people have brought up some points about Cannabis that I would like to address:

Cannabis in public: Already there are anti-smoking laws in public places. Additionally, as Cannabis is more like Alcohol in relation to Cigarettes, it should be held to the same public use standards as alcohol. As well as legalization leading to non-combustible methods of consumption possibly being more commonplace as widespread legal research is done into it

Cannabis smoke vs Cigarette smoke: I smoked for a while, cigarettes that is, and also cannabis. I quit smoking tobacco many years ago but still smoke Cannabis, and my lung capacity has improved. Basically I feel like a non-smoker now. I find reports saying that 1 joint is like 20 cigarettes or whatever to be highly exaggerated or just plain lies, as my own experience with it at least illustrates to me that though smoking is the least-efficient method it is not as bad as tobacco smoke

Cannabis as medicine: I don't know how I would be able to cope with migraines without it.

I go in a Montreal University, I also had a student work at the Notre-Dame CHUM (Montreal hospital center) and I talked to some physicist and other people who worked with patient in fMRI (functionnal magnetic resonace imaging) that benefits from cannabis usage. So the research have been blocked for several years because of prohibition, but it come back as a more popular research domain for many kind of health issues

eddie82, I live in Quebec, Canada. It's the most "socialist" province of Canada. Cannabis smoking everywhere is not accepted in Canada, but in Quebec, I can smoke pot in front of my school, close to police, or in the street. It's a widely accepted drug by most people here. You won't get arrested because you smoke pot, but you will if you roll a joint in a public place! Even then, I saw some guy rolling a joint on a table at a restaurant, or in the subway,... It's not like Amsterdam here, but close! Btw, cannabis is the only drug accpeted this way here![/quote]

Believe me, I would love to see it legalized. My point was, to the person with an apparent phobia of smoke, that I wouldn't expect to see people smoking in public places (at least not in the U.S.).

I'm more easy going and being are more comfortable around me when I smoke pot. Hell yes people with autism should get high.

I refuse to get high when I'm stressed or having a meltdown though.... maybe xanax for that.

I am not anti-medical marijuana, BUT...

It can be dangerous to smoke it, if you have a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia. I know that there are studies indicating that autism and schizophrenia are two sides of the same genetic coin, and I know that some people with AS do go on to develop schizophrenia later in life.

It may not be very likely, but I would be cautious.

Should persons with Aspergers use cannabis? Absolutely! But ONLY if they like it or it helps them, just like anyone else, and not when or where it would bother others. It is NOT addictive. It helps many people. If it were completely legal and taxed our state probably wouldn't be going down the financial rat hole. It was made illegal purely for economic reasons in US in 1937 because hemp production competed with the wood pulp industry and all the negative hype was made up to justify it. Great book called "The Emperor Has No Clothes" details history (may be out of print).
BTW, cigarettes are so dangerous and linked to lung cancer because they contain polonium 210, a hideous radioactive substance associated with the fertilizers used by tobacco companies and the fact that the tobacco plant is good at absorbing polonium. There are a couple of US universities that have posted studies on this and the cover up by tobacco companies on the subject. Just surf "polonium and tobacco" to read all about it.

In my opinion, the only reason people have for smoking this crap is that it's a social counter-culture thing. They do it because it's illegal and because the people they percive as "cool" are doing it.