Cannabis y autismo, las primeras investigaciones son prometedoras
02478-7" title="" target="">this case presented in September 2020 and published in the Journal of Medical Case Reports. The study was carried out on a 15-year-old patient who had to stop taking the usual medications due to the serious problems they were causing. These side effects made him gain more than 13 kilos in a year, a great stomach upset, suicidal ideas and a long list of things.
His mother reported that, putting a scale of the symptoms suffered by her son from 1 to 10 with 10 being the worst, her son"s anxiety was above 10, his aggressiveness a 6, his irritability a 9, his talkativeness a 0 and yes concentration a 4. Figures that showed the problems that the prescribed medications were causing his son.
After nine months using cannabis as a treatment, the figures could not be more hopeful, his irratibility and social anxiety dropped 7 points, his aggressiveness also decreased 6 points, his communication improved 4 points and his concentration 2. The best thing is that these effects are so positives were maintained over time and there were no tolerance problems.
All these behavioral improvements allowed the teenager to find a job, improve in studies and even find a boyfriend. And the researchers recognized that cannabis was the precursor to these benefits because when the medication had to be withdrawn for a time, a good part of the negative attitudes returned.
The boy currently continues with a daily medication of 4 mg of CBD, 0.2 of THC and 200 mg of lamotrigine that allow him to lead a normalized life.
Admittedly, this is a single case and that is not enough for a resounding claim that cannabis is beneficial and can even help to remove some very problematic from the list of prescribed medications. But for that reason, more research is needed since the benefits are potentially very high and the negative effects very low.
