As if the medical marijuana industry wasn’t controversial enough—with opponents arguing it encourages drug addiction and crime and supporters citing years of research to the contrary—there are now children benefiting from it. While there are several cases across the country of children being given various forms of cannabis to treat disease and illness, the case of 6-year old Jayden David is getting a particularly heavy dose of attention, where marijuana helped the boy beat severe epileptic seizures.
Marijuana Replaces 22 Different Anti-Seizures Pills, Helps Prevent Seizures
Jayden suffers from something called Dravet syndrome—a form of epilepsy that results in frequent and painful seizures. In his short life, he has been rushed to the hospital a total of 44 times. In an effort to control the seizures, doctors had the boy on 22 different anti-seizure pills each day. Sure, they helped to control the violent seizures, but Jayden was left immobilized by their strength.
At his wits end, and nearly suicidal, Jayden’s father turned to medical marijuana. For the first time since he was an infant, Jayden went an entire day without a seizure.
“He’s in pain and suffering and crying,” explained his father of Jayden’s normal daily seizures. “You can’t help him no matter what. What are you supposed to do? You have to do whatever it takes to save their life.”
Jayden’s father, Jason David, uses a non-psychoactive form of marijuana. This means his son doesn’t experience any sort of high, aside of course from the high of being pain free.
While he still doesn’t talk, Jayden is now more active than ever, running, playing with friends, and swimming at the local pool. There was a time when he couldn’t eat solid foods or function because of the steady stream of pharmaceuticals. His father has taken to calling the medicine “miracle marijuana” as opposed to “medical marijuana”. This is similar to the experience another 3-year old boy had, where marijuana oil actually helped him beat cancer.
The form of liquid cannabidiols that Jayden takes is a tincture developed by Harborside Health Care in Oakland, California. This clinic is the same type that the federal government is gunning for in the War on Cannabis.
But as Harborside’s executive director Steven DeAngelo says, parents don’t come to a decision like this lightly.
“Parents don’t want to bring their children to something controversial like cannabis,” said DeAngelo. “They do it reluctantly, and they do it because they’re at their wit’s end.”
The David family is fortunate that they live in California. Though 18 states have some form of medical marijuana legislation in place, not all are open to the idea of medicating children. And for those that are, families must live in fear knowing the federal government has yet to respect state laws in regards to this healing herb.
Edit: AS FAR AS I CAN TELL THIS IS THE CORRECT NUMBER. I CALLED THE PHILLY POLCE DISTRICT #22 AT THE # BELOW AND RECORDED IT WITH MY ROOTED ANDROID SMARTPHONE.
Very sad.
22nd district Philly PD
215-686-3220
Call to complain if you dare.
Oh, and the best part? I remembered to inform her that I was recording the call. Share this far and wide, because she consented to the recording.
Clearly a man is trying to plant a joint on him or it was fellow pat doing the ultimate dick move trying to plant his own shit on someone else. Adam was not resisting arrest. This is why you must ALWAYS have a camera. It’s even better than a gun. I am not supporting smoking weed or breaking the law. I am defending someone who is in jail who did not commit a crime did not have drugs and did not resist arrest.
The city of Garden Grove, Calif. has had a ban on medical marijuana dispensaries in the town since 2008, though up until last week you wouldn’t have known it by driving through the municipality of about 175,000 southeast of Los Angeles.
But all that changed May 6 when the California Supreme Court ruled that cities do have the power to ban medical marijuana collectives and as of today, the city is actively enforcing it’s ban.
The shutdowns started a day after the ruling last week when the city ordered 63 marijuana businesses to shut their doors for good or face fines of up to $1,000 per day and even criminal charges. The shops had to close by midnight Wednesday.
According to NBC Southern California, Garden Grove had the highest concentration of medical marijuana dispensaries in the county. The city has called the dispensaries a nuisance and police blame them for a 16 percent surge in crime over the last year.
On Tuesday night, medical marijuana patients flooded city hall for the Garden Grove City Council meeting angry about the closures. “I’m coming out if the closet as a medical marijuana patient,” one patient told the council. “You see there are a whole lot of us that are invisible to you.”
Some owners said they plan on continuing business without a storefront and plan on operating as a delivery service. Others are hopeful the city will legalize the dispensaries again. But according to Mayor Bruce Broadwater, the activists and dispensary owners shouldn’t hold their breath.
“When the federal government takes a look at it and decides what they’re going to do with it, then we’ll all get that answer. But right now, it’s against the law for the city of Garden Grove to even consider legalizing it,” Broadwater told KABC.
Apparently the mayor never took a junior-high civics lesson and learned that it’s not against the law to discuss changing the law.
Was bored so I decided to make a video while I smoke a joint talking about cannabis. Sit back listen and smoke a joint with me 😉
I get into how I think it’s disguising that the child rapists get less jail time than pot growers under the omnibus crime bill. I talk about how cannabis is mentioned in the bible in Hebrew. I also talk about why I think it’s illegal and I also explain minutely the true meaning of ‘law’ concluding it’s not unlawful to smoke cannabis or even do hard drugs. I explain how the Rockefellers took over the medical industry in 1906, started teaching chemical medicine’s instead medicine’s from nature.
As if the medical marijuana industry wasn’t controversial enough—with opponents arguing it encourages drug addiction and crime and supporters citing years of research to the contrary—there are now children benefiting from it. While there are several cases across the country of children being given various forms of cannabis to treat disease and illness, the case of 6-year old Jayden David is getting a particularly heavy dose of attention, where marijuana helped the boy beat severe epileptic seizures.
by William Breathes
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