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[MT] Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT
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Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT
MISSOULA - Montana has over 28,000 medical cannabis card holders with 51 of them are under the age of 18.
"When I see the number 51 and we're in a state of a million people that's a fraction of a percentage and even with the 28,000 people that are on the program, it's still a fraction not even 1%, so the number is really really small," explained Montana Medical Growers Association Missoula Chapter Director Tayln Lang.
"That's one of the things that I think is one of the biggest misperceptions, is that there's a ton of kids that are out there that have cards that are in high school and junior high, and that are buying this medical cannabis and giving it to their friends and that's just simply not true," Lang added.
The Medical Marijuana Act says in order for children to get a card, they have to follow specific guidelines. It says they "shall issue a registry identification card to a minor if the custodial parent or legal guardian for the minor signs and submits a written statement that the minor's physician has explained the potential risks and benefits of the medical use of marijuana; the custodial parent or legal consents to the medical use of marijuana by the minor; agrees to serve as the minor's caregiver; and agrees to control the acquisition of marijuana and the dosage and frequency of the medical use of marijuana by the minor."
"More often through the children who are under the age of 18 have very very serious medical conditions," said Lang.
One of the state's youngest medical cannabis card holders is Cash Hyde, a 2½-year old boy who battled a brain tumor and won. Cash's dad Michael Hyde says the drug helped Cash with his battle.
"I believe that you know Cashy's with us for a lot of reasons, one of them I would have to say is the power of prayer, one he's a walking miracle and the other one is he is a patient of medical cannabis, which has I think greatly benefited his battle," said Hyde.
Cash's parents were there every step through his battle and watched as drugs prescribed by his doctors made him hallucinate and stop his heart. Cash's dad says medical cannabis helped rebuild his organs that were damaged from the chemo, helped with his appetite, and helped him sleep.
"I watched Cashy not be able to eat for over 40 days, live off nothing but fluid intravenously to the point where he couldn't lift his head up off his pillow, I realized along the way in this journey that there is a quality of life that a lot of people do not have, and it's because of the drugs that they're given," said Hyde.
With medical cannabis so new to many, some are worried of the affect it may have on young developing brains.
Missoula Underage Substance Abuse Prevention Coordinator Brandee Tyree spends her days trying to keep kids away from marijuana.
"The THC will interfere with concentration, learning, problem solving, short term memory, all the things that kids need especially when they're in school and trying to learn. When you have a child that's high at school basically they're not learning so everything they've learned at school is then forgotten because they were high," said Tyree.
"Our coalition is designed to keep kids from using substances illegal or otherwise, alcohol obviously is illegal for kids but not for adults, we still don't want kids using it. Marijuana we take the same stance, it's a substance that's hurtful for the brain during development, we believe it's harmful for kids and in our opinion no we don't think kids should be using marijuana," Tyree added.
Lang asks people to look into the issue before making a decision.
"I would tell people before they make a decision on this to really do their research and check the facts out," Lang told us.
"If you or someone you know has battled cancer I don't have to tell you how devastating it is to watch chemo and cancer consume your loved one and when you can actually watch something that you're doing for them actually benefit them in a way that nobody else can do, you feel empowered you feel like you can make a difference," said Hyde.
Another important fact caregivers would like people to know, is that children card holders are usually ingesting the drug, not smoking it.
They can eat it in baked goods like cookies, cakes, brownies, and muffins. Or they can take a pill or a liquid form of the medicine.
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Re: [MT] Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT [Re: Shroomerette] 2
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I'm sure those are the popular kids in school... how sweet would that be to sit in class stoned out of your gizzards wreaking of weed and telling your teacher "It's legal..." (shows weed ID) and they can't do shit!
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Re: [MT] Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
#14009121 - 02/22/11 06:34 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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that would be great. i would of never got suspended from school... 'but teacher its for my diabetes (NOT THE FAT PERSON ONE)' hahaha. class was always more fun when high.
also weed has never stopped me from learning, at worst i might of had to read the same chapter 3 times for it to sink in. but i sure as hell never forgot anything i learned before i started smoking.
i'm still not sure how i feel about a 2 year old taking it. but if the other drugs were not working what else could they do apart form weed or nothing.
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Re: [MT] Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT [Re: mexicanjewlucas]
#14009136 - 02/22/11 06:37 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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mexicanjewlucas said: class was always more fun when high.
Except when it was ur turn to read when you all took turns reading something out of a book aloud.
My junior year in high school my english teacher made us memorize poems that had to be something like at least 10 lines on four twenty and that was a bitch! Cuz i wasn't just high i was so high my social skills were almost nothing just a paranoid voice in my head.
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Re: [MT] Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
#14009205 - 02/22/11 06:51 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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no i said always because i mean always. everything is more fun while high thats why i'm high nearly all the time.
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Re: [MT] Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT [Re: mexicanjewlucas]
#14009295 - 02/22/11 07:07 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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mexicanjewlucas said: no i said always because i mean always. everything is more fun while high thats why i'm high nearly all the time.
lol that is such a lie. "everything is more fun high"
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Re: [MT] Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
#14009358 - 02/22/11 07:21 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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i was raised in mexico, back when i was around 5 years old i used to have terrible leg cramps. my folks would rub thc tincture on my legs and i remember that stuff because it worked..
i found out after being rear ended in '02 i asked my mother what that stuff was, she was

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Re: [MT] Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT [Re: Shroomerette]
#14010254 - 02/22/11 09:45 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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The THC will interfere with concentration, learning, problem solving, short term memory, all the things that kids need especially when they're in school and trying to learn. When you have a child that's high at school basically they're not learning so everything they've learned at school is then forgotten because they were high," said Tyree.
I believe it is how you approach the drug. If you're a below average student in high school before you start smoking weed, after you start smoking, you will continue to be a below average student or your grades might suffer more. I believe if you are an above average student and you start smoking weed, you will continue to excel. Of course, their are exceptions to both of those cases, but the fact remains, the toddlers parents are approaching their son's marijuana use as a medicine. The child does not see his medicine as making him "high". He views the marijuana as helping him, and I don't believe that will impair his learning, because he doesn't know the recreational effects of the drug.
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Re: [MT] Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
#14010601 - 02/22/11 10:40 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Cognitive_Shift said: I'm sure those are the popular kids in school... how sweet would that be to sit in class stoned out of your gizzards wreaking of weed and telling your teacher "It's legal..." (shows weed ID) and they can't do shit!
When I went to high school in SF bay area, everyone got cards when they turned 18. I think 40-50 kids had it by graduation out of a class of 250.
Ahh california
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Re: [MT] Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT [Re: Cognitive_Shift] 1
#14011680 - 02/23/11 01:54 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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mexicanjewlucas said: no i said always because i mean always. everything is more fun while high thats why i'm high nearly all the time.
lol that is such a lie. "everything is more fun high"
name me one thing that isn't.
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Re: [MT] Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT [Re: mexicanjewlucas]
#14012152 - 02/23/11 06:47 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Cog, not everyone is you.
Being stoned in school is awesome. Accept that other people feel this way.
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Re: [MT] Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT [Re: mexicanjewlucas]
#14012435 - 02/23/11 09:05 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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mexicanjewlucas said: no i said always because i mean always. everything is more fun while high thats why i'm high nearly all the time.
lol that is such a lie. "everything is more fun high"
name me one thing that isn't.
getting pulled over or arrested. talking to the police. going for a job interview. being too drunk and getting the spins. arguing or debating with a friend, girlfriend or parents about anything, especially the fact that you're high, and especially if they're against marijuana.
of course those things aren't fun to begin with.. but pretty much everything thats already fun and enjoyable is made even more-so when you're stoned.. my favorite is playing guitar or piano (unless I'm wayy too stoned to play well, which is very rare and would take a bit too much of some super strong bud).
the next best thing that marijuana enhances is sex. not only does it make me insanely horny, but the sex feels wayy more amazing and the weed also dilates blood vessels providing a fuller, harder, longer lasting boner.
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Re: [MT] Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT [Re: BoneMan]
#14013014 - 02/23/11 11:25 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I enjoy how this thread started with a toddler doing pot and evolving into "fuller, harder, longer lasting boner[s]."
The beauty of conversation.
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Re: [MT] Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT [Re: PsychedelicQueer]
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I'm pretty sure if you are battleing cancer or something, getting suspended from school is the last thing on your mind. The benefits from smoking/eating herb are priceless, people need to try and get away from the stigma that is associated with ganja, and realize that it can actually genuinely help people.
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Re: [MT] Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT [Re: snoot]
#14013994 - 02/23/11 02:26 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I bet the alternative drugs that they give these very young people for cancer are a lot worse than cannabis. For a quarter second I was shocked that a 2 year old had a medical card. Then I realized that it's not that big of a deal.
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Re: [MT] Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT [Re: bryguy27007]
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bryguy27007 said: I bet the alternative drugs that they give these very young people for cancer are a lot worse than cannabis. For a quarter second I was shocked that a 2 year old had a medical card. Then I realized that it's not that big of a deal.
its really not, it would be a bit different if the 2yo were smoking joints or something and weren't so sick.
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Re: [MT] Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT [Re: mexicanjewlucas]
#14014611 - 02/23/11 03:48 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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mexicanjewlucas said: name me one thing that isn't.
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Re: [MT] Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#14014766 - 02/23/11 04:16 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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OMG a 2 year old with pot how immoral!!!
But what's more immoral letting him die easier/faster? Or giving him some weed?
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mexicanjewlucas said: name me one thing that isn't.
Trying to find your keys.
haha so true, I purposefully get really stoned when I want to hide something on myself, cause there is zero chance of me finding it, besides on accident. There are lots of things that suck while stoned, for instance trying to make any kind of sense when talking. Job interviews, lectures, anything that doesnt require sitting and being lazy.
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Re: [MT] Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
#14015164 - 02/23/11 05:31 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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mexicanjewlucas said: no i said always because i mean always. everything is more fun while high thats why i'm high nearly all the time.
lol that is such a lie. "everything is more fun high"
meh, its different for everyone.
i enjoy everything a lot more when i am stoned.
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Re: [MT] Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT [Re: usefulidiot13]
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"Our coalition is designed to keep kids from using substances illegal or otherwise, alcohol obviously is illegal for kids but not for adults, we still don't want kids using it. Marijuana we take the same stance, it's a substance that's hurtful for the brain during development, we believe it's harmful for kids and in our opinion no we don't think kids should be using marijuana," Tyree added.
The sad thing is that this type of person would rather let their loved one die or others for that matter than give them marijuana to help improve their condition. And on their deathbed she would think to herself, "atleast we did everything in our power to keep them alive" But in reality shes just another sheep.
Sure marijuana might interfere with learning but I would think being dead would also interfere a little bit more but then again, I'm no doctor. Fucks sake......
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Re: [MT] Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT [Re: BoneMan]
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mexicanjewlucas said: no i said always because i mean always. everything is more fun while high thats why i'm high nearly all the time.
lol that is such a lie. "everything is more fun high"
name me one thing that isn't.
getting pulled over or arrested. talking to the police. going for a job interview. being too drunk and getting the spins. arguing or debating with a friend, girlfriend or parents about anything, especially the fact that you're high, and especially if they're against marijuana.
NOWAY, except for the first one they are all much more fun when high. talking to the police while high is great fun because they can't do anything about it. i don't drink so the being too drunk won't happen to me. my arguments are much better when high as i think in a more logical way and can explain my point clearly.
Edit: after thinking, i would rather be high if i had to get arrested.
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Re: [MT] Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT [Re: mexicanjewlucas]
#14015972 - 02/23/11 07:46 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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maybe your police dont do anything about it.....ours call it public intoxication and will kick your ass if you try to be all "haha im high and you cant do shit"...
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Re: [MT] Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT [Re: usefulidiot13]
#14015986 - 02/23/11 07:48 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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the cops in my town REALLY suck tho....recently they arrested a guy who had his kid with him in the car and when the kid asked for a ride home they said NO and literally left him there in the car by himself...i cant remember his age but he was def no older than 8....not just a story either, it was big in our papers and all...our cops are fucking ASSHOLES.
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Re: [MT] Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT [Re: usefulidiot13]
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usefulidiot13 said: the cops in my town REALLY suck tho....recently they arrested a guy who had his kid with him in the car and when the kid asked for a ride home they said NO and literally left him there in the car by himself...i cant remember his age but he was def no older than 8....not just a story either, it was big in our papers and all...our cops are fucking ASSHOLES.
What the fuck? That's child endangerment if I've ever heard of it. Did they not at least call a relative to come pick the kid up or what? That's fucked beyond fucked.
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Re: [MT] Toddler, one of 51 kids using medical cannabis in MT [Re: SuperD]
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yeah man it JUST happened too and the cops only got a simple slap on the wrist....our whole town is pretty pissed off about it, but the cops are still getting away with it. the child had to call his mom who was an hour away and say that the cops wouldnt give him a ride home...the mom had to call her sister to go get him and he was just alone in the car and the cops were gone....totally fucked right?
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