[JoeAltmaier]

All very easy to say, safely in your house away from your loved child in pain with 600+ violent outbursts a day.

Every parent has only one subject; every child raising is a trial. You only have one chance and have to choose one approach.

This drug is used worldwide by maybe a billion people. Scaremongering is unhelpful.

[daveguy]

Cowboy drug trials on children are scary. No need for scaremongering.

Aspirin is used by billions of people and it's dangerous to give to children.

She obviously has no clue how to manage safe dosing for a trial and that is ignorant and dangerous.

Just because it's natural and everyone's doing it doesn't mean it's safe: hemlock is natural, "everyone" used to smoke cigarettes.

[jolux]

>Just because it's natural and everyone's doing it doesn't mean it's safe: hemlock is natural, "everyone" used to smoke cigarettes

But nobody is actually arguing that it's safe because it's natural. You don't have to, the data is conclusive: it is nigh on impossible to die of marijuana usage no matter what your age is. There are few other substances in a home that that can be said of.

Whatever you think the long term side effects would be it would seem pretty damn hard for them to outweigh the unceasing agony of this child's existence without marijuana. And as has been said numerous times before, everything major has already been ruled out so long term effects are not going to be catastrophic on the level of regret when you consider how much this child's quality of life has been improved.

Marijuana is used by millions of people and is probably safer than aspirin. Granted if you're breathing weed smoke instead of air 24/7 you probably won't fare too well but that's not what's happening here: small amounts, carefully tested on adults, of a substance scientifically believed to be safe. (which cigarettes never were on this order)

[JoeAltmaier]

How about the 7 years of benefit? How about a child with a chance to grow up, who didn't have one before?

This was a desperate act, by a desperate parent who had been abandoned by a medical industry that's happy to lose a generation of sick children because hey! process.

[pvaldes]

The problem is that this drug is used worldwide as excuse to put in jail a lot of people also. Health issues aren't the only issues here to adress. This boy has now a bullseye painted publicly on his back and will be targeted in a few years by several kind of predators.

On the other hand, this "just put them to sleep all day" is a particularly outrageous "solution" for autistic children, that often are very smart and sensitive people and deserve to be respected and loved, as any other children.