I interviewed Thalia Michelle and Amy Lou, co-founders of Mothers Advocating Medical Marijuana for Autism (MAMMA) about the use of medical marijuana for autism and seizures. You can sign up for the replay here:
Medical marijuana is NOT the same as recreational marijuana.
We’ll be educating you about the safety of medical marijuana for autism and seizures and its anti-inflammatory and other properties.
We discuss CBD, THC and other endocannabinoids and how the human body has endocannabinoid receptors throughout, and especially in the brain and body.
Children with autism and seizures are typically deficient in endocannabinoids. Medicinal cannabis corrects that deficiency, much as taking vitamins and minerals would correct those deficiencies.
In this webinar, we go over symptoms that medical marijuana can help with. We also discuss what the law is in each state that determines your ability to access it.
Thalia and Amy Lou provide a host of resources, doctors, non-profits, advocates, patent information and medical research that specialize in medical marijuana for autism and seizures.
MAMMA seeks to educate legislators, empower other mothers (and fathers) to become advocates, and bring the message of hope and reform.
MAMMA serves as a resource for other advocates interested in autism as a qualifying condition for the use of medical marijuana.
My younger sister has late onset autism. She was completely normal until she hit puberty at around 13-years-old. For the last few years, she has really been struggling with being different and is now at the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. She is really violent and I keep telling my mom to get her some medical cannabis to help correct her behavior and the deficiency. However, our state doesn’t allow cannabis to be sold for medical purposes. Would it be possible for us to cross state lines and legally bring back cannabis for medical use?
No, it’s not legal to transport it across state lines or to bring it into a state where it isn’t legal. Technically, cannabis isn’t deemed legal by the federal government, although 23 states at the time of this writing say it’s legal within their states (kinda like the whole “states’ rights issue that started the Civil War). Some families have chosen to move to states like Colorado, where it is legal, for this reason.