Not legalisation but for anyone interested in or using cannabis medicinally, a card is being introduced from 1st November and autism is listed as one of the conditions.
Not legalisation but for anyone interested in or using cannabis medicinally, a card is being introduced from 1st November and autism is listed as one of the conditions.
Cannabis will still be illegal, so I'm not really sure what the idea behind this card is. It doesn't have any official recognition does it? So it's just something you show to a police officer and he would look at it and wonder "what is this", and maybe if you are really lucky he'll have pity on you and let you off with a warning.
But if you only had a small amount for personal use then you'd probably get off with a warning anyway. The police aren't really bothered about enforcing the law on people who aren't dealing.
Also could someone explain to me why autistic people need cannabis? I'm not saying they don't, I'm just curious what the reason is. Perhaps helping with anxiety/depression and sociability?
In my case, I was 18 when I took it up and people stopped hitting me.
(Turns out I'm on the ADD end of the spectrum and can be super annoying).
I've had a long time to look into it and several long "time outs" and the simple answer is my life is less populated by "troublesome incidents" if I've got a baseline of cannabis in my system.
Add the fact that alcohol is a poison that my body rejects vehemently, and which tends to INCREASE the likelyhood of troublesome incidents (and I find drunk people really repellant) and it was a no-brainer for me.