Medicinal Marijuana for Autism

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Hmm, medicinal marijuana in Canada is no where near as potent as regular marijuana.. in fact, many who were aloud it thought it, well, sucked

A potent glue. I think it's a slang term applied to a few extremely rare strains of cannabis. He's an expert in the stuff, used to run kilos up in New York until after a highly educational stay at Riker's.

I always thought cannabis was pretty harmless until I met several people in occupational therapy classes who had fallen into psychoses through regular pot smoking.

As opposed to the people in occupational therapy classes who had fallen into psychoses even though they didnt smoke?

A small minority of the population will always end up psychotic regardless correlation does not equal causation.

Likewise.

I support legalization for use by adults, but it's definitely not for everybody, and I know a number of autistic people who've reacted similarly to me (badly).

I've come to think of this as blame.. Imagine if the individual was going into psychosis, regardless, and he happened to smoke pot. Well, it would be easy to place blame on the dope for the inevitable.

Now, for those who don't smoke pot and go into psychosis, what do we blame on that?

Yup. Let's just say he almost found out the hard way why they call it the "pokey." Apparently, the guys at Riker's don't care under what circumstances you smash another inmate's face, given the incident resulted in him getting an extension to his visit.

i won't go near anything that produces smoke. it makes me caugh and gag and almost throw up. i feel sick just walking by someone who's smoking a cigarette 10 feet away from me. Naturally i would never smoke anything, much less be in the same room as someone who is. It's also hard for me to understand why anybosy would voluntarily subject themselves to such a torture. I guess i understand now that most people don't react that way. Do any of you have sensory sensitivities like that?

I used to smoke regular cigs. It really depends a lot on how the smoke hits you. It really does. If it hit me the wrong way, I'd cough and cough and cough for a few minutes and just be raw afterward, so I ended up learning real quick how to inhale "properly." If you inhale properly, it's just a pleasantly fuzzy sensation, usually.

i don't think so. if i walk into a building and smell the faint smell of cigarette or marijuana (or any other number of smells), i feel nauseus. if there is an actual person smoking a few feet away from me, it takes all of my power not to punch them in the face for being so inconsiderate.

sorry i don't mean to offend anyone, its a severe sensory sensitivity for me which flips on my aspie black and white thinking about people. smoke=makes me sick=makes me angry=makes me strongly dislike person causing said feelings.

i've thought of many creative but socially unacceptable ways of dealing with this problem over the years...luckily i havn't been stupid enough to implement them. (one involved a trebuchet which launched steaming dog s**t at other people's tables in a french restaurant) Another was a buying a strong, terrible perfume that i might casually spray in large amounts around the offending parties. An eye for an eye in my mind, but i doubt others would see my logic!

I know my real solution is sensory integration therapy, so eventually my nose won't be so bothered, and i will be happy to let others to whatever they hell they want to themselves.

again, sorry if i offended, and i know this is off-topic. i think that marijuana has medicinal purposes and should be legal for certain patients. In fact, its ridiculous that it is not. but i also think that smoking should be illegal pretty much everywhere but one's own home (and only with no children or animals present). that's what i miss most about california....strict smoking laws

I think its the indica dominant strains that tend to do that. pure/high sativas often have a 'no ceiling' effect.

you neednt have worried about the police, they take tons of drugs
No, seriously some of them in the UK do seem to consume a lot of confiscated material - you often hear about someone whos been busted with a certain amount and when its read back in court about 10% of the evidence has gone missing.

No, I never feel sick but people have thrown up from it, I've seen it. Thats fine, well, you can tell me if you think feeling sick off smoke is fine

When you first smoke, you will cough, it'll burn. I find when I drink tea, I burn my mouth. do it enough you build up tolerance (by burning things). Not the healthiest but no one has claimed pot smoking as safe, just not as damaging as people want it to be

Well, some people have an allergy to cigarette smoke. You might want to go ahead and get yourself a diagnosis, so you can insure yourself of a smoke-free environment on the job. In fact, as much as the NYC smoking bans annoy me, I don't really care to hear more than moderate grumbles about it for exactly this reason. In a densely populated area, it's more logical than it seems on the surface. Elsewhere, I don't think I'd tolerate it.

And no, don't think you're offending anybody. If you've got an intolerance, it isn't something that you can help. As long as you keep in mind that some smokers don't understand the idea of someone having an intolerance or allergy to tobacco smoke and try to be patient, I don't think you're in the wrong.

Punch me in the face and I'll kick you in the nuts.
ASK me, politely, to stop or blow it the other way and damn straight I will. I have no desire to subject people to something they'd rather not endure. I'd have no way of knowing, upon you having just entered an area, whether or not you smoke.
Get pissy with me, however, and it's a different story. Especially if it's a smoking-allowed area. I cannot abide by those selfrighteous pricks who wander into a smoking area and then start with the little 'cough cough... ahem..cough cough' crap. It's a smoking area. By definition, that means there's smoke there. You chose to enter that area, so cut the crap.
Non-smoking area's a different matter. People that smoke in non-smoking areas piss me off.
While we're on the whole offensiveness thing, I find people who bathe in cologne/perfume to be, personally, far more offensive than smokers.
Also, loud people on cell phones.
Loud people in general.
Ok, people in general.

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I'd rather look at a Routemaster, than smoke Pot.