Mother Worries Son Will Struggle to Find Marijuana

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A Montana woman says medical marijuana helps her autistic teenage son communicate. She's concerned all his progress will be for naught if the bill to reform medical marijuana legislation makes it past the governor's desk.

Coral Campbell says 10 years ago, her son was uncontrollable. "I have a 14-year-old son that has high-functioning Asperger's," she said, "Nick was never able to sit still and play legos, or color in a coloring book."
The family took up sign language because he only spoke gibberish. Desperate, Campbell signed him up for a Canadian experimental drug trial.

A reform bill is expected to pass this week, eliminating commercial caregivers. Campbell says she has no interest in learning how to grow her own marijuana, and says making liquid medicine and treats are well beyond her capabilities.

Coral Campbell also became a medical marijuana patient last year. She uses the drug in order to combat aggressive pancreatic cancer.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42981983


this bill is also repeal.. simply by placing so many roadblocks the program will evaporate in 1 year.
its a way for a senate to stop the will of the voter and if sucessful it will be in your state next. some help would be nice but were not getting any of course.

[Brickbat]

1. Heh, I thought this was the Onion.

[Le Taz Hot]

2. Re: your last sentence --

How exactly are people in other states supposed to help? We didn't elect these guys, the people of your state did. :shrug:

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5. oops my reply was misplaced its down on #4

sorry

[Odin2005]

3. K&R for that fellow aspie kid.

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4. yeah, we elected a Democratic Gov... call him!

ask why he is helping republicans, and hurting the people with this repeal. [phone]

also have a court case in need
http://www.mtcia.org/2011/05/montana-cannabis-industry-association-launches-unified-defense-against-sb-423/

[Bluenorthwest]

6. The author is off base a bit. To say that Campbell has

'no interest' in learning how to grow seems to be the author's presumption. Campbell has pancreatic cancer, and most likely lacks the physical ability to grow well, and clearly her physical condition is not stable for the future of her son or herself.
This is not going to happen in my State, so the threats are not needed. What possible help could non Montanans offer to you? Let people know.

[meow mix]

10. Schweitzers office [phone]

ask him to stop helping republicans destroy the mmj program =)
also have a court case in need but i think the money was just raised..

[Deep13]

7. One of the hallmarks of Asperger's is normal or even above average verbal skills.

The problem is that such people are socially awkward and do not respond to things like visual cues or implied meanings. So I'm a little skeptical about her claims when she says he is high-fuctioning with Asperger's but cannot talk properly.

Sorry to hear about her cancer. That variety rarely ends well.

[Recursion]

11. Alternately, she keeps her son stoned so that his behavior isn't a problem anymore

We don't know nearly enough about the impact of marijuana on adolescent development for me to be giddy about that idea.

[RaleighNCDUer]

12. Sounds like a bad case of ADHD to me.

The Aspeys I know had no problem sitting for hours at highly detailed tasks - they'd shut out the entire world to do it. Mostly because it was so much easier than dealing with people. Good verbal skills, because you can lock down the meaning of words - poor social skills because people so often use words in ways that are baffling to an Aspey. Ask "how're you doing" to an Aspey, and you'll get "how am I doing what?"

[Deep13]

13. Ha! I say that sometimes as a joke...

...because that's what I think when someone says "How are you doing?"

[CBGLuthier]

8. Love the fucking rehab ad. Marijuana=drug=bad!!

I have no worries about this coming to my state. First we would have to get MM approved and that is just not going to happen.

While I do support and believe in medical marijuana I believe more in total cannabis legalization.

America must accept the fact that 20-40 percent of its population like to get stoned one way or another. All the goddamned laws do is make bad people rich.

[Fumesucker]

14. More like 3/4 of the adult population..

That is roughly the percentage that drink alcoholic beverages.

[Aerows]

9. It's shameful

that therapy exists that is both extremely helpful and affordable, and it is "illegal" just because our government says so.

It forces people to resort to drugs that are far more expensive and have more side effects, or simply have no treatment at all - all to benefit big Pharma.

I'm not a marijuana smoker - I'm just a human being that is fed up with our own government targeting the sick because it impacts big Pharma's bottom line. Lest we all forget, the reason it became illegal to grow hemp was because of DuPont chemical - hemp rope has worked for centuries, but DuPont developed nylon and wanted a captive market. That's originally why hemp growing became illegal.

This is, once again, another example of laws that harm the public - and the sick of all people! - to the benefit of a very select few for no reason other than greed.