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UC San Diego to use controversial marijuana compound to treat severe autism
UC San Diego will try to alleviate severe autism in children by giving them a non-psychoactive chemical found in marijuana, a project funded by the biggest private donation ever made in the U.S. for such research.
The $4.7 million study involves the controversial compound cannabidiol, or CBD, which is widely marketed nationwide as something of a miracle drug, capable of treating everything from cancer to post-traumatic stress disorder.
[...] UC San Diego dealt with the issue by asking the Ray and Tye Noorda Foundation of Lindon, Utah, for $4.7 million to study whether CBD can ease the most severe symptoms of autism, including seizures, self-injuring behavior, and crippling anxiety. The foundation agreed, and it is urging the federal government to remove marijuana from its list of Schedule 1 drugs so that cannabis can be widely studied.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @02:12PM
We've been treating some severe symptoms of ASD with Marinol (dronabinol) for a couple of years now. It's nothing like a cure for ASD, but it can help to defuse some of the more challenging situations with our 18 year old son. We tried it as a daily dose, that wasn't really helpful - set a new baseline and things were just as bad as before after a while, and worse if you missed the dose. When used "as needed" it tends to take everyone's stress level down a couple notches within 10-30 minutes, even people who aren't taking it.
It also works well for mom to lower her cortisol levels, on the same kind of "as needed" basis. Unfortunately, dad can't afford to fail a whiz quiz at work, so he's stuck with alcohol as a stress reliever - definitely not good when overused, but semi-effective in small occasional doses.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday May 01 2018, @04:21PM
I can understand treating severe cases.
If you have a touch of autism or aspergers or something like that, and are high functioning, well, guess what? People pay good money for the things you can hyper-focus on!
Being good at social interaction isn't everything. But don't eat your coworkers.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @06:00PM (3 children)
after removing weed from schedule 1, we need to arrest all the scum that have been persecuting people under unconstitutional drug laws, including the whores in the legislatures. These pieces of shit have been allowed to destroy the country for far too long.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @06:42PM
That's fine, because you like to talk all about action but will just end up getting high and doing jack shit as usual.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday May 01 2018, @07:02PM
That would be called: Revolution, and is unlikely to pass the legislature.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Tuesday May 01 2018, @07:40PM
Right after we nab the war criminals and other violators of civil liberties, including FBI/NSA/CIA agents, local cops, etc.
Face it, history is written and performed by the winners and you aren't one.
Even if you formed a concrete plan to forcefully impose your will on said "whores", you would have little effect and be regarded as a lone wulf, nutjob, terrorist, or have your multi-user plot be disrupted by FBI snitches. Things have to get a lot worse economically for the middle class before shit really hits tha fan in an uncontainable way.
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