so i was actually watching the news and they had a segment on it that ucsd was looking for participants. ezra had begun to get more physical and aggressive. at one point i had a lot of bruises on me because he was getting more violent. joann s son ezra was diagnosed with autism when he was 22 months old. i heard people compare it to like losing a child. you lose the idea of the child that you were going to have. the life that you were going to have. the life that he is going to have. he is an herbivore. joanne tried everything she could think of to try to help her son. we tried gluten-free, kasen free, dairy free, homeopathic remedies. had you considered other meds before this, like psychotropic or knew owe lep particular medications? i didn t want to try because there were so many side effects.
not in a position. right. because of the law. right, yeah. so, for now, their source is underground. a grower they met years ago when kara was a young child. i remember them being desperate and in need of some help. we found kara s secret supplier who was willing to meet with us as hong as we disguised their identity and did not reveal the location. we started testing together conservatively and documenting the trstrains and how they work for kara and the ones best for her. how did you put the puzzle pieces together for something totally new like this? there is a lot of groups and forums on the internet where autism parents that use cannabis as medicine talk about strains and specific ones. so this is jason s earlier
50/50. how much potential do you really think is here for cbd v to treat autism? the big advantages are it may have much less side effects than some of the other hemedicines ud to street severe disruptive behavior. in a sign of how quickly things changed, when this trial began two years ago cdbv, even though it s the nonpsychoactive part of the plant, was still considered a schedule one drug and had to be locked in this safe. squirt it on the side of your mouth, okay? when you talk about these ups and downs, i mean, how low has it gone? pretty low. low enough that he attacked me. but me knowing what he is going through, sometimes i have to think for him and myself. somebody said there is something that could help treat
i m so sorry. as the words stopped, the hitting started. age 4 to age 6 was really hard. we would take turns on who was going to hold and lay with her and make sure she is not going to punch her face and break her nose and eye sockets. watch what you are doing. that s right. and the developmental pediatricians say it s autism. that was around age 4? mm-hmm. what was that like to hear? terrifying. i knew nothing about it. but christie would quickly learn there is no cure. there are no definitive treatments, especially for someone who had such severe autism as kara. completely non-verbal. one night she repeatedly hit herself for 12 hours non-stop. at this a point it was, like, we need to go a different direction, you know. so that s when the antipsychotics, that s when they started, right after this. kara started taking a
every day that i give the medicine to my daughter is a potential day for me ending up with a felony. the death penalty of family law. what if it was your child? would you take the risk? an ancient plant to treat a mysterious disorder of the brain. this is weed 6: marijuana & autism. you are about to see kara zblartler s life. i want to warn you. this will be hard to watch. kara has severe autism. kara. stop it. her fits are dangerous, frequent, and disturbingly violent. i decided to journal all of