SOURCE:http://forum.grasscity.com/recreational-marijuana-use/211163-marijuana-adhd.html
Marijuana and ADHD
I know, it's LONG. If you don't feel like reading it, that's cool. But if you've ever had a problem with ADD or ADHD then this could help you out a lot. PM me or reply to my thread if you have any questions.
Throughout my early school years I knew I was intelligent. I had straight A's up until high school (yeah, not that hard..but w/e). In high school, I lost all drive to do well in school. My disorder finally reared it's ugly head when I was actually required to do my homework at home, weird concept I know. When I got home, I couldn't do it. Too many distractions, not enough motivation, so I gave up.
I would still do well on tests; I could sit in a classroom without taking notes and absorb enough information to ace it. I never really asked myself why I continuously only did enough to slide by. I ended up with a 3.4 GPA even after never doing my homework. The biggest sign that told me something was wrong was the ACT. I scored a 33 on the ACT the second time I took it (first without a calculator, meh.). At that point, I could go to any school I wanted. But I still had to wonder, why didn't I give high school my best? Why couldn't I have just done my homework and got a 4.0. I could have been valedictorian.
So here I am at college. A shitty state university. I procrastinated so much on my college apps that this was the only school I could apply for. I got in easily. I had NO distractions here but my computer first semester (I'm a computer nerd, it's required :P), yet I still didn't do my homework. I was continuously skipping class because I can now and couldn't in high school when I wanted to every day. My grades were suffering, first semester I received a 2.5 gpa. Something had to be done. I thought about getting my adderall prescription filled again, but then I came across an article about cannabis and its uses to remedy ADHD. I was immediately intrigued. I sought out help from some hallmates who were more experienced with the herb .
Something that I found enjoyable during first semester was smoking with my hallmates. After a month of thinking they were just drug addicts, I found myself talking to them more and more and realizing that these guys were actually more intelligent than my current friends who were all self-proclaimed intellectuals. They got me high for my first time ever (it was a bong, by the way ), and since then, I've been smoking marijuana almost every day. At first, I binged. I smoked a lot of pot, way more than needed to get high at my tolerance. I loved the feeling it gave me. I could deal with social situations that were worsened by my ADHD in a much better manner. I could focus better, I was less impulsive, and frustration seemed to just slip away. Things were looking bright...
Until I realized what I was doing. I was continuously smoking throughout the day and basically was high all the time. I realized that people around me were getting the idea that I was this huge stoner. I'd always be stoned and smell like a hint of the herb so people immediately judged me and put me in the "pothead" category. This disgusted me. Just because I smoked, people automatically slotted me as someone who just smokes pot all day and does nothing else. What bothered me most is that people didn't believe that I was intelligent. I was out of it most of the time, so people figured I was a stupid stoner kid. Stereotypes with marijuana are so wrong, but so prevalent within society.
I also found that the reason I was smoking in the first place had been lost. I was smoking to relieve my ADHD. It worked, but I smoked too much. I was blasted all the time so it actually had the reverse effect. I was just as inattentive, obnoxious, and impulsive as I was before smoking. I had a big wakeup call when my hallmates confronted me about these issues. Something had to be changed, and I knew what it was.
I've reduced my cannabis consumption down to around 3 times per day on weekdays. Sure, on weekends I'll get blasted every once in a while, but for the most part I smoke much less marijuana than I did before. I found that consumption of cannabis via eating it gave much better results with regards to curing ADHD symptoms. The longer lasting "buzz" I guess you could call it is something that helps me through my school day. I am more attentive, less impulsive, and generally more mellow after eating cannabis rather than smoking it. Smaller amounts, too, showed promise that this could be the answer to all of my problems.
So, I began a routine that I still continue today, and it's done so well to cure my symptoms. In the morning, I eat a piece of toast with cannabis peanut butter. This is excellent for focus and to slow my mind down enough to think throughout the day. I eat a cannabis cookie after dinner. This gives me the ability to focus enough to do my homework throughout the evening. At night, I usually smoke a one hitter or use my vaporizer. This clears my mind enough so that I can lay down and actually fall asleep within 15 minutes, rather than lying in bed for an hour while my mind races about. Really, it reminds me of adderall, without the addictive properties and without the withdrawal if you don't feel like taking it anymore.
So, I would consider the treatment of my ADHD with marijuana to be rather successful. I am attending class daily without any problems. I am able to do my homework and study each night without being distracted. Aside from school, it also helps me in social situations that are made worse by my ADHD. My friends notice that I am no longer as obnoxious or impulsive anymore, and I'm a much more bearable friend. I am very happy with the results, and I suppose the next step is to make this magical herb legal!
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Stay fly.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Marijuana replaces Ritalin in treatment for ADD/ADHD
Marijuana replaces Ritalin in treatment for ADD/ADHD - Video
So it would appear the die is cast and that cannabis is set to be reclassified to a class B drug, bringing with it more arrests, more prison sentences, and more expense.
In the meantime, Dutch Police in Amsterdam are complaining about their rights to use cannabis when off-duty and as if that wasn't enough to prove the futility of trying to outlaw a substance which is a long way safer than either alcohol or tobacco, we now have a consultant pediatrician from the US, claiming marijuana (or cannabis) can be used ON CHILDREN, in the treatment of ADD or ADHD? So who's telling us lies?
Dr Claudia Jenson, who is a consultant pediatrician from USC, has come up with a novel way of treating ADD/ADHD, WITHOUT any of the unwanted side effects which can result from using popularly prescribed medicines.
Attention deficit Disorder, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) is a biological, brain based condition that is characterized by poor attention and distractibility and/or hyperactive and impulsive behaviors. It is one of the most common mental disorders that develop in children. Symptoms can continue into adolescence and adulthood. Image
If left untreated, ADHD can lead to poor school/work performance, poor social relationships and a general feeling of low self esteem.
The normal course of treatment for a child diagnosed with ADD/ADHD, is a course of methylphenidate, better known as Ritalin.
Methylphenidate (MPH) is a prescription stimulant commonly used to treat Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. It is also one of the primary drugs used to treat the daytime drowsiness symptoms of narcolepsy and chronic fatigue syndrome. The drug is seeing early use to treat cancer-related fatigue.
As always there is a flip-side to these prescription drugs, and in the case of Ritalin, substance abusers have found various ways to ingest the drug recreationally, which gives an effect similar to cocaine or amphetamine so the use of ritalin is to be closely monitored.
For the child diagnosed with ADD/ADHD, the side effects of using Ritalin, are many, including psychosis (abnormal thinking or hallucinations), difficulty sleeping, stomach aches, diarrhea, headaches, lack of hunger (leading to weight loss) and dry mouth. In some cases, the use of Ritalin has led to death.
If Ritalin or its side effects, are causing your children problems, ask your doctor about using marijuana as an alternative.
watch this corresponding video
So it would appear the die is cast and that cannabis is set to be reclassified to a class B drug, bringing with it more arrests, more prison sentences, and more expense.
In the meantime, Dutch Police in Amsterdam are complaining about their rights to use cannabis when off-duty and as if that wasn't enough to prove the futility of trying to outlaw a substance which is a long way safer than either alcohol or tobacco, we now have a consultant pediatrician from the US, claiming marijuana (or cannabis) can be used ON CHILDREN, in the treatment of ADD or ADHD? So who's telling us lies?
Dr Claudia Jenson, who is a consultant pediatrician from USC, has come up with a novel way of treating ADD/ADHD, WITHOUT any of the unwanted side effects which can result from using popularly prescribed medicines.
Attention deficit Disorder, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) is a biological, brain based condition that is characterized by poor attention and distractibility and/or hyperactive and impulsive behaviors. It is one of the most common mental disorders that develop in children. Symptoms can continue into adolescence and adulthood. Image
If left untreated, ADHD can lead to poor school/work performance, poor social relationships and a general feeling of low self esteem.
The normal course of treatment for a child diagnosed with ADD/ADHD, is a course of methylphenidate, better known as Ritalin.
Methylphenidate (MPH) is a prescription stimulant commonly used to treat Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. It is also one of the primary drugs used to treat the daytime drowsiness symptoms of narcolepsy and chronic fatigue syndrome. The drug is seeing early use to treat cancer-related fatigue.
As always there is a flip-side to these prescription drugs, and in the case of Ritalin, substance abusers have found various ways to ingest the drug recreationally, which gives an effect similar to cocaine or amphetamine so the use of ritalin is to be closely monitored.
For the child diagnosed with ADD/ADHD, the side effects of using Ritalin, are many, including psychosis (abnormal thinking or hallucinations), difficulty sleeping, stomach aches, diarrhea, headaches, lack of hunger (leading to weight loss) and dry mouth. In some cases, the use of Ritalin has led to death.
If Ritalin or its side effects, are causing your children problems, ask your doctor about using marijuana as an alternative.
watch this corresponding video
Friday, September 19, 2008
three of the four national parties have spoken out in favour of decriminalizing the recreational drug.
Federal election could be going to pot
By DAVE MABELL
Sep 5, 2008, 04:22
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Legalizing the use of marijuana will be an election issue if proponents across Canada listen to Neil Magnuson.
In Lethbridge as part of the “2008 Freedom Tour” on Thursday, the long-time activist said three of the four national parties have spoken out in favour of decriminalizing the recreational drug.
For the Green Party, he said, it’s one of the key issues.
“If Elizabeth May is allowed to take part in the debate, she’ll talk about it.”
May, the party’s leader, is battling the reigning Conservatives’ efforts to keep her out of the televised debates. Magnuson, in Alberta as part of the movement’s annual trek to the House of Commons in Ottawa, said he’ll be urging legalization advocates to take full part in the upcoming election.
Pro-pot websites, Facebook and other vehicles will be used to urge advocates to speak up during the campaign and then vote for candidates who support their cause.
Many Liberal and New Democratic Party candidates are also expected to back legalization, he pointed out, though it may not be a platform plank as it is for the nation’s Greens. Not many Conservatives are in favour, he conceded.
“They’re in the pockets of the United States,” a nation where marijuana use is heavily proscribed.
But in Canada today, Magnuson said most adults see the prohibition on marijuana as no more effective as the nation’s generations-ago ban on alcohol.
“I think people across Canada are fairly aware of this issue,” he said. “But they feel helpless about changing the law,” especially when a Tory government is promoting longer jail terms for people caught selling pot.
“Very few Canadians think we should use criminal law against it.”
By refusing to regulate and tax the product — just as provinces do with alcohol — he said the federal government is putting that revenue in the hands of organized crime, just as in Al Capone’s era. So criminal gangs recruit young people to sell their product and run the risk of arrest.
“For youth who are living in poverty, they can’t resist the lure of easy money.”
Magnuson said a Canadian Senate report pegged the costs of policing, prosecuting and jailing those young people at $1 billion or more every year. Because marijuana is so widely grown and used, he added, about 1.5 million Canadians have a drug-related conviction on their court record.
A 25-year activist in metro Vancouver, Magnuson said experience there refutes opponents’ suggestions that using pot becomes a “gateway” to using dangerous “hard drugs.” What researchers there have found, he said, is marijuana’s role in helping addicts quit those narcotics and get on with their lives.
SOURCE: Lethbridge Herald.com
By DAVE MABELL
Sep 5, 2008, 04:22
Email this article
Printer friendly page
Legalizing the use of marijuana will be an election issue if proponents across Canada listen to Neil Magnuson.
In Lethbridge as part of the “2008 Freedom Tour” on Thursday, the long-time activist said three of the four national parties have spoken out in favour of decriminalizing the recreational drug.
For the Green Party, he said, it’s one of the key issues.
“If Elizabeth May is allowed to take part in the debate, she’ll talk about it.”
May, the party’s leader, is battling the reigning Conservatives’ efforts to keep her out of the televised debates. Magnuson, in Alberta as part of the movement’s annual trek to the House of Commons in Ottawa, said he’ll be urging legalization advocates to take full part in the upcoming election.
Pro-pot websites, Facebook and other vehicles will be used to urge advocates to speak up during the campaign and then vote for candidates who support their cause.
Many Liberal and New Democratic Party candidates are also expected to back legalization, he pointed out, though it may not be a platform plank as it is for the nation’s Greens. Not many Conservatives are in favour, he conceded.
“They’re in the pockets of the United States,” a nation where marijuana use is heavily proscribed.
But in Canada today, Magnuson said most adults see the prohibition on marijuana as no more effective as the nation’s generations-ago ban on alcohol.
“I think people across Canada are fairly aware of this issue,” he said. “But they feel helpless about changing the law,” especially when a Tory government is promoting longer jail terms for people caught selling pot.
“Very few Canadians think we should use criminal law against it.”
By refusing to regulate and tax the product — just as provinces do with alcohol — he said the federal government is putting that revenue in the hands of organized crime, just as in Al Capone’s era. So criminal gangs recruit young people to sell their product and run the risk of arrest.
“For youth who are living in poverty, they can’t resist the lure of easy money.”
Magnuson said a Canadian Senate report pegged the costs of policing, prosecuting and jailing those young people at $1 billion or more every year. Because marijuana is so widely grown and used, he added, about 1.5 million Canadians have a drug-related conviction on their court record.
A 25-year activist in metro Vancouver, Magnuson said experience there refutes opponents’ suggestions that using pot becomes a “gateway” to using dangerous “hard drugs.” What researchers there have found, he said, is marijuana’s role in helping addicts quit those narcotics and get on with their lives.
SOURCE: Lethbridge Herald.com
Parents are using marijuana for ODD, OCD, Autism, ADHD and Tourettes and Bi-polar in their kids.
For the Sake of the Children
The Message of Medical Cannabis
Jay R. Cavanaugh, Ph.D.
September 2002
There is a belief system in the United States nurtured by decades of simplistic thinking that says to everyone we must ban cannabis for the sake of the children. Recently, speaking of the DEA raid on the Santa Cruz, California Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana, DEA agent Richard Meyers stated, "what type of message are we sending to our children"? The Alliance, more commonly known as WAMM, is a nonprofit patient cooperative that literally gives medicine away to the sick and dying who qualify for medical cannabis under California State Law. Some of the patients are, in fact, children and a message is most certainly being sent to all of the children of the community and to the rest of us.
The message is that sick people, with their physicians’ approval, need real nontoxic medicine and programs like WAMM are going to see that they get what they need regardless of their ability to pay. Children are being taught that cannabis is a legitimate medicine that is to be used in the context of an overall medical plan designed to relieve suffering. The children are being taught to love one another and that there is all the difference in the world between legitimate medicine and drug abuse.
Furthermore, some in the medical cannabis community are brave enough to speak out publicly, stating that cannabis can provide unique help with some childhood disorders including cancer but also attention deficit disorder and autism. These latter disorders are currently treated with powerful stimulants such as amphetamine in the first case and with brain numbing toxic preparations such as Haldol in the case of autism. Parents of autistic children and children with severe ADHD often are desperate for help with seemingly insurmountable problems. Behavioral therapies while very helpful often fail to relieve the aggressive, indeed violent, behavior and lack of impulse control sometimes associated with these disorders.
Out of sheer desperation, a number of parents have begun trying adjunctive therapy with cannabis for their children. Most activists within the medical cannabis community are frightened by this development for the very real reason that they believe the use of cannabis with children will only increase the efforts of law enforcement to crush the movement. Nothing could be further from the truth. Some childhood behavioral brain disorders are so resistant to traditional treatment and that treatment is often so toxic that virtually any new method that provides real relief is going to result in a groundswell of support for medical cannabis. This is already happening in the autism community.
Imagine a child being given half a dozen psychotropic drugs from Prozac to Haldol to Valium and who continues to break down doors and assault others seemingly without provocation who now responds to therapy with medical cannabis. Imagine the parents of such children contemplating a lock up for their beloved child who now sees that child calm and functional. Loving parents will demand that cannabis be provided to the arsenal their pediatricians and pediatric neurologists already have.
The message to our sick and suffering children is that we love them. The love is greater than any blind acceptance of the existing wrongful beliefs about cannabis that are merely the propaganda of cultural elitists. As loving parents, these folks are willing to risk the wrath of Child Protective Services, the actions of the DEA, and the ignorance of their own physicians.
Over the past year, thousands of parents and professionals involved in the treatment of children have been reaching out for education on the possible role of cannabis in treating the devastating disorders of their kids. In the words of one parent of a formerly violent autistic boy, "autism took our son away from us and the love of the Lord and cannabis cookies have brought him back". The stories, one might say, are "merely" anecdotal but they are heart wrenching and true.
Brain disorders often involve an imbalance in the brain of key neurotransmitters and/or defects in their receptors. The exact cause of childhood brain disorders is still unknown but seems to involve the way in which brain cells (neurons) communicate with one another. Proper brain function requires an intricate "dance" of just the right concentrations of serotonin, dopamine, GABA, and other chemicals. It is now established that in the human body natural "cannabis", called Endocannabinoids, are active in the brain and play a vital role in regulating brain function. In fact, Endocannabinoids may be the most important chemicals of all in establishing and maintaining homeostasis or balance in key brain systems and other systems elsewhere in the body. Cannabinoids are active in determining when cells die (apoptosis) and when they live. The cannabinoids are neuroprotective. They are powerful anti-oxidants, anti-inflammatories, anti-seizure, and control the production and metabolism of key hormones including psychohormones.
In the decades to come it is certain that pharmaceutical companies will develop and test synthetic medicines based on the naturally occurring cannabinoids. They have already started. These medicines will be very expensive and it will be many decades before they are perfected and in general use. For the sake of the children we can’t wait that long. Nor do we need to. Cannabis has been used safely and medically for thousands of years. Based on the 12,000 year old track record of medical cannabis preparations we can treat our sick children now in the context of comprehensive treatment overseen by qualified physicians.
Currently, we have a virtual epidemic of behavioral problems with children. These problems propel children into self destructive behaviors including drug experimentation, alcoholism, and addiction. These problems destroy our families and fill our institutions and prisons. For the sake of the children we need to more effectively diagnose, intervene, and treat our sick kids. No medicine should be withheld from the effort to treat sick kids based on cultural prejudice and misinformation. For the sake of the children, their parents will not stand for nontoxic and efficacious treatments being denied their babies.
In the near future the American Alliance for Medical Cannabis will be publishing detailed articles on the use of cannabis in the treatment of autism and attention deficit disorders. We have already published articles demonstrating the effectiveness of cannabis with other brain disorders such as Tourette’s Syndrome and Bipolar Disorder. These are terrible illnesses that bring great suffering to many thousands and anguish to a legion of parents. For the sake of the children let’s try medical cannabis.
SOURCE:http://www.letfreedomgrow.com/cmu/for_the_children.htm
The Message of Medical Cannabis
Jay R. Cavanaugh, Ph.D.
September 2002
There is a belief system in the United States nurtured by decades of simplistic thinking that says to everyone we must ban cannabis for the sake of the children. Recently, speaking of the DEA raid on the Santa Cruz, California Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana, DEA agent Richard Meyers stated, "what type of message are we sending to our children"? The Alliance, more commonly known as WAMM, is a nonprofit patient cooperative that literally gives medicine away to the sick and dying who qualify for medical cannabis under California State Law. Some of the patients are, in fact, children and a message is most certainly being sent to all of the children of the community and to the rest of us.
The message is that sick people, with their physicians’ approval, need real nontoxic medicine and programs like WAMM are going to see that they get what they need regardless of their ability to pay. Children are being taught that cannabis is a legitimate medicine that is to be used in the context of an overall medical plan designed to relieve suffering. The children are being taught to love one another and that there is all the difference in the world between legitimate medicine and drug abuse.
Furthermore, some in the medical cannabis community are brave enough to speak out publicly, stating that cannabis can provide unique help with some childhood disorders including cancer but also attention deficit disorder and autism. These latter disorders are currently treated with powerful stimulants such as amphetamine in the first case and with brain numbing toxic preparations such as Haldol in the case of autism. Parents of autistic children and children with severe ADHD often are desperate for help with seemingly insurmountable problems. Behavioral therapies while very helpful often fail to relieve the aggressive, indeed violent, behavior and lack of impulse control sometimes associated with these disorders.
Out of sheer desperation, a number of parents have begun trying adjunctive therapy with cannabis for their children. Most activists within the medical cannabis community are frightened by this development for the very real reason that they believe the use of cannabis with children will only increase the efforts of law enforcement to crush the movement. Nothing could be further from the truth. Some childhood behavioral brain disorders are so resistant to traditional treatment and that treatment is often so toxic that virtually any new method that provides real relief is going to result in a groundswell of support for medical cannabis. This is already happening in the autism community.
Imagine a child being given half a dozen psychotropic drugs from Prozac to Haldol to Valium and who continues to break down doors and assault others seemingly without provocation who now responds to therapy with medical cannabis. Imagine the parents of such children contemplating a lock up for their beloved child who now sees that child calm and functional. Loving parents will demand that cannabis be provided to the arsenal their pediatricians and pediatric neurologists already have.
The message to our sick and suffering children is that we love them. The love is greater than any blind acceptance of the existing wrongful beliefs about cannabis that are merely the propaganda of cultural elitists. As loving parents, these folks are willing to risk the wrath of Child Protective Services, the actions of the DEA, and the ignorance of their own physicians.
Over the past year, thousands of parents and professionals involved in the treatment of children have been reaching out for education on the possible role of cannabis in treating the devastating disorders of their kids. In the words of one parent of a formerly violent autistic boy, "autism took our son away from us and the love of the Lord and cannabis cookies have brought him back". The stories, one might say, are "merely" anecdotal but they are heart wrenching and true.
Brain disorders often involve an imbalance in the brain of key neurotransmitters and/or defects in their receptors. The exact cause of childhood brain disorders is still unknown but seems to involve the way in which brain cells (neurons) communicate with one another. Proper brain function requires an intricate "dance" of just the right concentrations of serotonin, dopamine, GABA, and other chemicals. It is now established that in the human body natural "cannabis", called Endocannabinoids, are active in the brain and play a vital role in regulating brain function. In fact, Endocannabinoids may be the most important chemicals of all in establishing and maintaining homeostasis or balance in key brain systems and other systems elsewhere in the body. Cannabinoids are active in determining when cells die (apoptosis) and when they live. The cannabinoids are neuroprotective. They are powerful anti-oxidants, anti-inflammatories, anti-seizure, and control the production and metabolism of key hormones including psychohormones.
In the decades to come it is certain that pharmaceutical companies will develop and test synthetic medicines based on the naturally occurring cannabinoids. They have already started. These medicines will be very expensive and it will be many decades before they are perfected and in general use. For the sake of the children we can’t wait that long. Nor do we need to. Cannabis has been used safely and medically for thousands of years. Based on the 12,000 year old track record of medical cannabis preparations we can treat our sick children now in the context of comprehensive treatment overseen by qualified physicians.
Currently, we have a virtual epidemic of behavioral problems with children. These problems propel children into self destructive behaviors including drug experimentation, alcoholism, and addiction. These problems destroy our families and fill our institutions and prisons. For the sake of the children we need to more effectively diagnose, intervene, and treat our sick kids. No medicine should be withheld from the effort to treat sick kids based on cultural prejudice and misinformation. For the sake of the children, their parents will not stand for nontoxic and efficacious treatments being denied their babies.
In the near future the American Alliance for Medical Cannabis will be publishing detailed articles on the use of cannabis in the treatment of autism and attention deficit disorders. We have already published articles demonstrating the effectiveness of cannabis with other brain disorders such as Tourette’s Syndrome and Bipolar Disorder. These are terrible illnesses that bring great suffering to many thousands and anguish to a legion of parents. For the sake of the children let’s try medical cannabis.
SOURCE:http://www.letfreedomgrow.com/cmu/for_the_children.htm
Marijuana may be beneficial to ADHD people when driving.
Cannabis normalized impaired psychomotor performance and mood in a patient with hyperactivity disorder
Scientists at the Department for Forensic and Traffic Medicine of the University of Heidelberg, Germany, investigated the effects of cannabis on driving related functions in a 28 year old man with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). He had violated traffic regulations several times in recent years and his driving licence was revoked due to driving under the influence of cannabis. He showed abnormal behaviour, seemed to be significantly maladjusted and his concentration was heavily impaired while sober during the first meeting with a psychologist. He was allowed to perform driving related tests under the influence of the cannabis compound dronabinol (THC), which his doctor had prescribed him to treat his symptoms. The examiner expected that he was not able to drive a car under the acute influence of THC.
But at the second visit his behaviour was markedly improved and he performed average and partly above-average in all tests on reaction speed, sustained attention, visual orientation, perception speed and divided attention. A blood sample taken after the tests revealed a high THC concentration of 71 ng/ml in blood serum. He admitted later to have smoked cannabis and not taken dronabinol, because it was too expensive. Researchers noted that "people with ADHD are found to violate traffic regulations, to commit criminal offences and to be involved in traffic accidents more often than the statistical norm" and conclude from their investigation that "it has to be taken into account that in persons with ADHD THC may have atypical and even performance-enhancing effects."
SOURCE:http://bbsnews.net/article.php/20071001105829361
Scientists at the Department for Forensic and Traffic Medicine of the University of Heidelberg, Germany, investigated the effects of cannabis on driving related functions in a 28 year old man with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). He had violated traffic regulations several times in recent years and his driving licence was revoked due to driving under the influence of cannabis. He showed abnormal behaviour, seemed to be significantly maladjusted and his concentration was heavily impaired while sober during the first meeting with a psychologist. He was allowed to perform driving related tests under the influence of the cannabis compound dronabinol (THC), which his doctor had prescribed him to treat his symptoms. The examiner expected that he was not able to drive a car under the acute influence of THC.
But at the second visit his behaviour was markedly improved and he performed average and partly above-average in all tests on reaction speed, sustained attention, visual orientation, perception speed and divided attention. A blood sample taken after the tests revealed a high THC concentration of 71 ng/ml in blood serum. He admitted later to have smoked cannabis and not taken dronabinol, because it was too expensive. Researchers noted that "people with ADHD are found to violate traffic regulations, to commit criminal offences and to be involved in traffic accidents more often than the statistical norm" and conclude from their investigation that "it has to be taken into account that in persons with ADHD THC may have atypical and even performance-enhancing effects."
SOURCE:http://bbsnews.net/article.php/20071001105829361
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