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| Cannabis Oil Helped 80 Percent of Autistic Children, Israeli Study Finds |
| 2018-07-28 |
| h/t Instapundit An Israeli study recently published in the prestigious journal Neurology examined the effect of medical cannabis therapy on children on the autistic spectrum. The study, led by Dr. Adi Aran, director of the pediatric neurology unit at Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, found that cannabis treatment with a high concentration of CBD (the non-psychoactive substance considered to have medicinal properties) improved the condition of 80% of the children in the study. The study included 60 children, with an average age of 12, whose condition had not improved with conventional drug therapy. 60, IMO, a bit small sample size |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #7 60, IMO, a bit small sample size Agreed. That enough to support doing a study of at least 1,000, at which point meaningful research can begin. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-07-28 20:46 |
| #6 How do you overcharge somebody for something they can get from a windowbox? Get the FDA involved. They'll figure out a way, like they did with colchicine. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-07-28 14:51 |
| #5 No, Murcek, that's the really the reason it's been illegal all these years. Anybody can grow it. How do you overcharge somebody for something they can get from a windowbox? (Unless, of course, they're in California...) |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2018-07-28 14:37 |
| #4 Still hard to understand how Big Pharma missed making bazillions on derivatives from a weed that's so easy to grow. Either the claims are bogus or somebody missed the boat a couple hundred years ago. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-07-28 13:19 |
| #3 60, IMO, a bit small sample size Bit there is a huge amount of anecdotal evidence. ;-) |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-07-28 10:39 |
| #2 (doing Groucho Marx cigar bit): "It also helped with the Therapist's problems. (rim shot) |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2018-07-28 10:27 |
| #1 Putting pot on schedule 1 made it nearly impossible to do studies. Now that things have loosened up a bit, expect to see a flood of therapeutic uses, especially for CBD. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2018-07-28 10:00 |