13: Side Effects

The Peripheral

Justin Evans

Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2016

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

For almost 60 years marijuana has been a Schedule I drug, prohibited by the government like heroin from 1937 until 1996, when California first allowed marijuana to be legally used for medical purposes. For nearly 5,000 years before that, however—including immediately prior to making it illegal—marijuana was in common use. Racism, misinformation, and social conditioning are among the obstacles today that have prevented potentially life-saving scientific research—and lined the pockets of opioid-manufacturing Big Pharma Companies. What are the worst side effects of marijuana? Would you consider giving your child marijuana? Does it really have any medical benefit? You might find the answer in this episode, where I talk with parents who ran out of traditional treatment options for their children and a retired nurse whose home was raided for growing marijuana for her ailing husband.

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0:00.0	Welcome back on this week's episode.
0:15.0	I'm going to be speaking with a few women who happen to be Missouri medical marijuana
0:26.4	advocates.
0:27.7	Now, I normally don't talk to advocates because sometimes they will say things or go off
0:34.5	the rails on certain items, but these women really had a story to tell about how the
0:41.5	laws against marijuana have impacted their lives.
0:45.2	The first story is Brandy and Jessica.
0:48.7	They use medical marijuana to treat their children.
0:53.7	This is very frowned upon and in a very controversial topic.
1:00.2	The second story, I'm joined by Dolores, who Dolores and her husband had their home raided
1:08.1	and were arrested for possession of Maryland.
1:13.9	Any just ways that THC or cannabinoids have affected your life or your loved ones, okay?
1:22.4	Mm-hmm.
1:23.0	It's affected our life.
1:24.9	That's Brandi you're talking to you right now.
1:26.5	Yeah, I'm sorry.
1:27.6	My youngest son, Trace, has intractable epilepsy, and he's the our life. That's Brandy you're talking to you right now. Yeah, I'm sorry. My youngest son Trace has intractable epilepsy,
1:30.8	and he's the only one in the world living with deprosopis,
1:33.6	which is cranial duplication.
1:35.9	So neurologically, he's got a lot of things going on that no physician knows about.
1:41.7	He wasn't expected to survive the first night, so he's now 12, and he was having
1:47.9	upwards of 300 to almost 400 seizures every single day. On a bad day, he was having around 450.
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