On the green front

Now never in a million years would I recommend marijuana for children (although the pharmaceutical industry and their marketing departments seem to have their sights set on them), as I would pretty much equate it to giving alcohol to kids as well. I believe that marijuana, just like alcohol (at least in Canada), should be legal, taxed and regulated by the government, with an appropriate consumption age established.

But a California mother Mieko Hester-Perez, told the CBS Early Show that marijuana saved her autistic son's life. Her son, Joey, simply did not eat, had no interest in food and weighed a scary forty-eight pounds:

Everyone that came to my home was watching me watch Joey die. He was deteriorating hourly.

However, after four years of eating just peanut butter and jam sandwiches, Joey began eating marijuana brownies, which not only improved his appetite but his general well-being.

We're seeing Joey come out. He's never made noises, we didn't even know he could make noise until the first batch of brownies.

Other parents have claimed similar results, such as Marie Myung-Ok Lee's account in Slates' Double X blog from May.



Meanwhile, the Washington Post reported yesterday that support for legalizing marijuana is growing across the U.S. at a significant rate, and legendary American populist Jim Hightower recently wrote a very thoughtful column on the futility and foolishness of the war on marijuana.