by David Knowles
SPHERE
November 24, 2009
In California, the state with the nation’s most permissive medical marijuana law, several doctors say that some children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, are being treated with marijuana – a fact that has sparked a heated debate.
“Let me count the ways in which prescribing marijuana for teens with ADHD is a bad idea,” said Stephen Hinshaw, professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. Marijuana, Hinshaw said, is a “cognitive disorganizer” that produces roughly the same effect in users as those associated with ADHD.
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