Published on 12, July, 2020
Any advice would be appreciated. My son aged 24, has recently been diagnosed with ASD, which explains why he has been self medicating with cannabis since the age of 14 and the last 5 years with cocaine. He has sought help with our local drug service and now doesn't use cannabis only cocaine and is attending weekly meetings, but he feels that this won't help in getting clean, as he takes it to cope with his ASD. He has been assessed by mental health and the ASD service, who cannot assist him with coping mechanisms as he is on drugs. So my son cannot get any help with his ASD because he's on drugs. We are both despairing and any advice would be appreciated.
Coke is a nasty, addicting dependency drug.
Cannabis, however, has been a known universal medicinal plant for Sapiens for all of recorded history and longer (obviously). It has been demonised by the elite (who incidentally grow cannabis for manufacture and sale in the UK - all government sanctioned for export) as an investment opportunity for war profits which they can circulate during peace time to maintain those profits. Demonise something and the masses will follow on false morality.
Cannabis is contra-indicated for sub 25 as the brain at that age is usually fully developed.
e.g. person with lifelong sleep issues cannot take addicting Zopiclone, cannabis gives sleep every night
The brain doesn't fully mature at 25 for everyone, for some people with neuro divergences it can keep developing through the late thirties as three recent studies have suggested.
Cannabis can be helpful when used in the short term, but the body soon adapts and you have to increase dosage and consumption to get the desired effect. Its why many people start with cannabis and move onto harder substances.
An average for most brains is that by 25 they are mature. Not every brain (didn't realise I had to input that proviso).
Actually most people start out with alcohol and tobacco (both being legal and damaging).
What you say is why cannabis as a recreational endeavour is a positive experience for most users (not everything is for everybody). If one is not graced with self control then one should avoid such things anyway. Regular cannabis use for pain control is a known remedy and most people do not have to increase their intake as like ALL pharmaceuticals there is a dosage which works.
Oh my goodness, spice (synthetic cannabis (nothing to do with cannabis at all)) is rat poison!
Like I said, used correctly cannabis is suitable for long term use and it is OK to agree to disagree it is no mean feat to find YouTubers who do who appear normal. (yes I know it's the internet)
I use certain highly addictive pain soothers. I self medicate and have done for over 2 decades and my physicians are OK with that - not an addiction in sight, no increase in dosage for over a decade once a suitable dose was found by my experimentation.
Many with less self control can be dumb enough to not listen to their bodies and be grand-mothered by state doctors with all its triumphs and ills.
I am living proof that your cannabis hypothesis is wrong. I am well aware that cannabis reaches a certain soluble level in the body which cannot be exceeded. Constant use is dumb and wasteful.