and not cbd, which has now become more commonly accepted as a medicine, but thc, the psychoactive part of the plant that gets you high or stoned, he said. he thought that thc might help calm kara. the zartlers were willing to try anything, but their home state of texas has the most restrictive medical cannabis laws in the country. so they couldn t do it legally. and the zartlers did have their own reservations. it s illegal. there is got to be a illegal for a reason. it took us a long time to get over the stigma. a stigma that this woman understands all too well. when we first started, nobody had really thought of using cannabis in a pediatric setting. many years ago award-winning novelist marie lee wrote a provocative washington post article about giving her son cannabis. but only now was she willing to sit down, talk about it.
what you re watching in real time is what happens when kara zartler needs to be rescued by cannabis. it s hard to watch, but the zartlers want you to see this. the repetitive hitting associated with her severe autism seems to vanish as she inhales the cannabis vapor. let s be calm. let s be calm. her mind and her body seem to slowly relax and calm. something no other medicine could do for her. i didn t tell her physicians until she was 14. i took her medicated to her neurologist and he sat there in awe and said, i m not going to chart this. this won t go in her chart, but i think if you have this positive of a result, you need to continue with this medicine for her. a medicine that keeps kara
autism, how would it help you? probably i don t have to worry about getting angry over a certain schedule being broken. i would be plate happy about that. often times what parents are worried about, the headline is my kid is taking a cannabis drug and some people say, well, i can t believe you did that. i would be, well, i m doing trying to find something to help my child because at the end of the day that s my child and i m thinking for the future for him. and that s what we heard b again and again. maribel and carlos. marie and jay. here we go. the zartlers and kara. i remember them being desperate and in need of some help and really needing some
could lead into recreational abuse. the conservative lawmaker and grandmother to a boy with autism is not giving up. i am trying to move the ball a little further down the road. human beings are impatient. especially, understandably, when it comes to the care of our children. sometimes the roads are arduous and long. they take time. there is no end in sight. and yet the zartlers can still take immense joy that they can now travel the road at all. no longer afraid about what lies ahead. it is just a miracle. it is nothing short of a miracle for me. their story is out there now for the world to see. they are at peace with that. they once believed they would lose their child. and now revel with their belief every day that instead she was
zartlers. they came to you and said this is our situation, what would you say to them? i would warn them what the ramifications are in the law. as a mother myself, i would move heaven and earth to make something better for my child if they were suffering. do you recognize this session click is pushing to add more health conditions and also raise the thc level from 0.5 to 5%. it s a bill the zartlers are watching very closely because it would allow them to legally give that higher thc dose to kara. every day that i give the medicine to my daughter is a potential day for me ending up with a felony. the fight to keep their daughter when we come back. (computer keys clicking) (mouse clicks) - shriners hospitals for children is awesome! my favorite people in shriners are the doctors and the nurses because they help people through life. wow, i was a really cute kid!