{"id":240,"date":"2009-12-16T10:54:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T16:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/16\/medical-marijuana-prescribed-to-kids-with-adhd\/"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:43:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:43:11","slug":"medical-marijuana-prescribed-to-kids-with-adhd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/16\/medical-marijuana-prescribed-to-kids-with-adhd\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Marijuana Prescribed to Kids with ADHD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by David Knowles<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sphere.com\/2009\/11\/24\/marijuana-prescribed-to-kids-with-adhd\/\">SPHERE<\/a><br \/>\nNovember 24, 2009<\/p>\n<p>In California, the state with the nation&#8217;s most permissive medical marijuana law, several doctors say that some children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, are being treated with marijuana &#8211; a fact that has sparked a heated debate.<\/p>\n<div>Reliable figures on the use of marijuana to treat ADHD are hard to come by, as reported by <em>The New York Times<\/em>. Though California says it has issued more than 36,000 medical marijuana cards since 2004, the state does not compile statistics on prescriptions for specific conditions, such as ADHD. And many doctors and patients are reluctant to talk about it. Still, experts say such prescriptions are becoming more common as the number of pot dispensaries and doctors prescribing marijuana continues to grow. And not everyone is happy about it.<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Let me count the ways in which prescribing marijuana for teens with ADHD is a bad idea,&#8221;\u009d said Stephen Hinshaw, professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. Marijuana, Hinshaw said, is a &#8220;cognitive disorganizer&#8221;\u009d that produces roughly the same effect in users as those associated with ADHD.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sphere.com\/2009\/11\/24\/marijuana-prescribed-to-kids-with-adhd\/\">http:\/\/www.sphere.com\/2009\/11\/24\/marijuana-prescribed-to-kids-with-adhd\/<\/a> and express your opinion to your state and federal legislators and local school districts. <a href=\"mailto:cchrstl@cchrstl.org?Subject=Medical%20Marijuana%20for%20ADHD\">Let CCHR St. Louis know<\/a> what you did and what was the result. Type &#8220;marijuana&#8221; or &#8220;adhd&#8221; into the Search Box at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/\">www.cchrstl.org<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prescribing marijuana for teens with ADHD is a bad idea. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/16\/medical-marijuana-prescribed-to-kids-with-adhd\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[35,111],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","category-press-releases","tag-adhd","tag-marijuana"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NMpC-3S","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}