A father in the state of Texas nearly had his daughter taken away from him because he treated his daughter with medical marijuana. The daughter, who was 4-years-old at the time of the treatment suffered from autism and would hit herself so hard during fits of rage that she would break her own bones and even caused brain damage. Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio and Peter Mougey discuss this.
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A father in the state of Texas nearly had his daughter taken away from him, because he treated his daughter with medical marijuana. The daughter was four years old at the time of the treatment. Suffered autism. Would hit herself so hard during her fits that she’d break her own bones and even cause brain damage. They were trying to take the child away from the father for giving them medical marijuana. Judge says, “uh-uh (negative).” He looked at all the facts. He saw video where this was the child before the marijuana. This was the child afterwards. What’s your take on this case?
The way this case was brought is absolutely disgusting. The parents took a video of the kid that, as you mentioned, was hitting herself. The neighbor came over and said, “Try a pot brownie and see if that tones her down.” The parents took some videos, were trying to advocate for medical marijuana, showed the video publicly, and then Child Protective Services came in and starts pushing a case. Now, the judge ultimately brought everything out to even keel. The parents are okay. They can be guardians. The fact that Child Protective Services brought a case, because the parents were trying to do something to advocate that they-
Again, this is autism. We’re talking about autism. Now, we’re starting-
Severe.
To see the possibility that there may be some benefit. The judge looked at all the facts and said, “You know what? I’m not going to take the child away. As a matter of fact, I’m going to make the parent a guardian.
They were charged with child abuse.
Yeah. Welcome back. I’m Mike Papantonio here with Peter Mougey. The story to me is incredible. I think it’s an important story for a lot of reasons. Here, you had a parent that had an autistic child. The autism was so bad that what would end up happening was the child would break their own arm, break their own leg, cause brain-
Self mutilation.
Self mutilation. The father said, “Look, we gave the child medical mari- gave them marijuana, and that calmed the child down.” Now, you pick up from there. What happened?
There is a charge filed with Child Protective Services for child abuse. When I read the story, I’m thinking, “I’ve got kids.” You’d do anything as a parent to protect your kid. The kid’s beating themselves, breaking their bones, and they were given the child antipsychotic. They just turned the kid into a zombie. That scared the parent. One of the neighbors recommends, “Hey, you know what? Try this pot brownie,” and it worked. They videoed the results, miraculous results, videoed it, and were championing medicinal use of marijuana in Texas. The Child Welfare Services picks up the story and ends up charging them with child abuse, because they’re advocating, “Look at this wonderful result this had on my kid.”
That’s outrageous. That’s a recap. Let me pick up there. Florida, for example, Charlotte’s Web, we are involved … Again, full disclosure, our law firm’s involved with the Charlotte’s Web issue, and that is where there is a low THC marijuana that treats epilepsy that you would have children who are having 50 seizures a day, all of a sudden they’re taking-
Great results.
They’re taking Charlotte’s Web and they have zero seizures. Well, even the conservative, ultra conservative, legislature here in Florida says, “Yeah, this is a good idea, and we’re going to allow Charlotte’s Web to be sold.” The next thing that happens is medical marijuana in the state of Florida passes. Well, what has actually happened here is you’ve had a huge push back from the pharmaceutical industry. You have the pill, the drug, companies saying, “We don’t want people using marijuana, because it’s going to cause some awful horrendous results.”
Well, awful and horrendous results, we’ve seen at this law firm for 35 years, where you have products that are killing people brain damage, products that are killing people from kidney failure, liver failure, heart failure, DVTs, name it, we’ve seen the full expanse of it. Compare that to medical marijuana that’s been used all over the country and people are getting great results from this. Charlotte’s Web probably is going to save the lives of thousands of kids, people all over this country.
