On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Rob Weisskirch went:

A student said her brother has ADHD and was prescribed medical
marijuana to help alleviate symptoms, particularly insomnia.  Now, I
know I'm in liberal California, but I would think that this practice
is fairly unusual and would not alleviate many symptoms.

I'm not seeing anything in the literature about it, so let's hit the
blogosphere and check in with Lester Grinspoon, shall we?

<http://www.brendastardom.com/arch.asp?ArchID=391>

"It was more than a decade ago that I first had the experience of
observing a high school student with ADHD treat this disorder much
more successfully with cannabis than with his doctor-prescribed
Ritalin. His mother (now deceased), a vice president of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who had asked me to see him for
evaluation, was also persuaded that he did much better while using
cannabis than he ever did with Ritalin. Since that time I have seen a
number of patients, both young people and adults, who have had similar
experiences. I have also heard from many others; still I have seen no
reference to this possibility in the scientific or medical literature.
I think that we are now in the same situation we were with Tourette's
syndrome about a decade ago; a number of anecdotal reports but nothing
in the medical literature. Today you can find citations in the
literature on cannabis as a treatment for Tourette's. The bottom line
is that this use of cannabis for the treatment of ADHD is still in the
clinical observation or anecdotal stage, and it may be impossible to
find the citations you seek.  --Lester Grinspoon, M.D."

--David Epstein
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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