Should persons with Asperger's consume Cannabis?
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http://www.treatingyourself.com/
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I honestly think it should be legal. It is the one thing I actually like. I hate cigarettes. I think the smell of cigarettes is so disgusting. I used to like alcohol but it doesn't really do anything for me. I mean I will occasionally have a drink but I don't get "drunk" and I think people that drink to get drunk are just stupid. I like marijuana because I get really bad migraines and I have Fibromyalgia as well as Asperger's and my muscles are always aching. Smoking a little weed just makes me not think of the pain I have in my body or something. I am definitely for it. <3
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Yes. It should be legal and used for ASD. I'm living proof. It help to get me off the dangerous pills the doctors put me on and live a fairly 'normal' life.
Its also one of my 'special passions' that I put a lot of focus on.
History, botany, horticulture and alchemy of cannabis.
Its the closest thing we have to actual magic on this planet.
I'd rattle on endlessly about it now, but I'm on my android phone posting and its really frustrating. I don't want to meltdown and throw it against the wall. :'(
Sometimes the mexican cartels add stuff to the marijuana to add weight to it. They ought to let people grow their own to cut the cartels and dealers prices. If everyone can grow it no one would really be buying from guy they don't know or have to go into the hood to score. Every plant that is grown at home is money out of some drug lord's pocket.
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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.
This seems to be the undead vampire of anti-cannabis propaganda! Most people are confused about this one.
1) There is a correlation between cannabis usage and psychosis / schizophrenia.
2) Correlation does not imply cause.
3) Well designed studies which compare diagnosis rates across populations where cannabis use is known to have increased dramatically have only ever shown no change or a drop in diagnosis rates.
4) Which would imply that people are self-medicating.
5) THC can be administered in high doses to produce 'psychotic symptoms' which are temporary.
6) CBD can be administered in high doses to neutralise 'THC psychosis'.
7) Psychiatric professionals recommend that the users themselves are best placed to judge whether or not to continue use of cannabis when experiencing symptoms.
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FACT: Cannabis does not cause schizophrenia
I will be happy to dig out the links to all the research for this stuff if anyone really needs to see it but it's all on the facebook page anyway.
No, lol. i don't need links.
I don't follow this stuff closely but I did a lot of digging around in the past, and for *me* personally, the studies are frightening.
My dad is schizophrenic, as well as my aunt. I don't have an agenda and really don't care what anyone else does to their own well-being, but for me, I would be cautious. I've smoked a ton of the stuff in the past, and done a lot of psychedelic drugs. I can tell you that some of those drugs have definitely had lasting effects.
What I remember from reading about schizophrenia and cannabis, and seeing a documentary from the UK about Cannabis (In a series from BBC, probably easy to google), you can have schizophrenia in your genes, and lying in the dark inside you waiting to pop out. Sometimes, cannabis can help to make the schizophrenia visible in the being. Maybe they could have gone all their life without ever noticing their disease, but cannabis can cause you to start noticing it.
I hope you understand what I'm trying to say, I'm not the best person around, in english.
Sometimes the mexican cartels add stuff to the marijuana to add weight to it. They ought to let people grow their own to cut the cartels and dealers prices. If everyone can grow it no one would really be buying from guy they don't know or have to go into the hood to score. Every plant that is grown at home is money out of some drug lord's pocket.
This is true, however as Angel_ryan stated he thinks that marijuana is laced with other drugs, this would make no sense at all. For one, other drugs cost more than cannabis. 2ndly there are way easier measurements to add weight, such as glass, sugar and other things that are way cheaper.
Just to clarify for someone else reading, it would be ret*d to lace it with more expensive drugs than the cannabis itself.
I don't think it's necessarily a good thing for aspies to consume open-ended quantities of marijuana out of boredom and for no particular reason, because it's pretty well established that chronic, daily consumption of large quantities does bad things to motivation, short-term memory, ability to learn, and one's general ability to earn a living and/or succeed in life.
HOWEVER...
In moderation, and particularly as an adjunct to facilitate learning how to pretend to be social, it can be invaluable. When I started college, and for most of my first two years, I was a stubborn, hardcore, die-hard self-righteous aspie nerd who was totally off the "geek" scale. Then, somehow, a miracle occurred, and I managed to become involved with Greek (as in, fraternities) social life, and one guy in particular made teaching me how to be social his personal project. Without assistance from pot, he never would have made it to first base, let alone gotten me to let down my guard and chill enough to listen to him and take him seriously.
I'll be the first to admit there's a slippery gray line between therapeutic and recreational use, and I'm not going to act righteous and pretend that probably 40-60% of my collegiate pot use wasn't 'recreational' in nature or had higher motives at the time. Really, though, pot in the abstract never really did much for me. It served its purpose, and served it well, but the fun factor just isn't high enough to risk losing my drug-tested job over it now. If it were unambiguously legal (or I went to Amsterdam for a few days), I'd probably try it again, but I can't really imagine going out of my way to get it, or spending large amounts of money and/or risking arrest over its acquisition. It was fun, but it wasn't that fun.
Actually, thinking back, I still remember the first time I smoked pot -- I spent almost an hour watching the minute hand on a wall clock move. In complete fascination.
That said, I think pot should be unambiguously legal, and regulated no more tightly than alcohol.
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I personally feel that smoking pot is not a healthy choice for most people. I would prefer that people see a psychiatrist for legal medications. However, for some chronic conditions, pot seems to help. I voted against the legalization of medical marijuana in the state of Arizona because I believe that the state legislature should make this type of decision.
NO because NT's get really stupid on it and Aspies would probably be slightly worse.
I relate to this.
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Sometimes the mexican cartels add stuff to the marijuana to add weight to it. They ought to let people grow their own to cut the cartels and dealers prices. If everyone can grow it no one would really be buying from guy they don't know or have to go into the hood to score. Every plant that is grown at home is money out of some drug lord's pocket.
This is true, however as Angel_ryan stated he thinks that marijuana is laced with other drugs, this would make no sense at all. For one, other drugs cost more than cannabis. 2ndly there are way easier measurements to add weight, such as glass, sugar and other things that are way cheaper.
Just to clarify for someone else reading, it would be ret*d to lace it with more expensive drugs than the cannabis itself.
Yeah that is a good point, not to mention I've never gotten anything laced I have heard of rare cases of this happening, but its not as common as people seem to think considering most drugs are more expensive than cannabis.
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No certainly not because then people might want even more personal freedom, than just the personal freedom to smoke cannabis if they choose to.
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