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As a School Psychologist who works with children diagnosed with ADD/ADHD every day your above statement is an outrage and a lie. There are NO STUDIES of this kind anywhere in the world. This claim is spurious and dangerous.
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You're a Ritalin pusher!
You may want to research Dr. Claudia Jensen, clinical instructor at the University of Southern California before calling someone an outrageous liar.

It was even on TV in april of 2004. Many doctors in California are now using medical marijuana to treat ADD and Oregon is now adding marijuana to the ADD treatment list. There have been many Ritalin deaths. Marijuana has never killed anyone.

Here's where it began in 2004:
Transcript: Dr. Claudia Jensen - Cannabis for ADD
Posted by CN Staff on April 23, 2004 at 13:34:28 PT
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
Source: MSNBC

COUNTDOWN is in the home stretch now. Your preview of our No. 1 story, the war on drugs meets the war to get your kids‘ attention. Just say no to ADD and give your kid pot? A doctor explains next.

OLBERMANN: They are a diagnoses at near epidemic proportions for kids in this country, ADD and ADHD, attention deficit disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Fair or not, they are so common as to become part of the vernacular referring to our collective short attention span and inability to focus. Don‘t mind him, he‘s got ADD.

According to a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, when our nation‘s doctors encounter a patient with one of these disorders, they go to right to one drug, methylphenidate. You may know it better as Ritalin. But there is a lesser known treatment, one that may in fact be more effective with fewer side effects, cannabis. You may know that better as weed, reefer, Mary Jane, marijuana.

Dr. Claudia Jensen is a clinical instructor at the University of Southern California and a practicing pediatrician who advocates the use of medicinal marijuana for the treatment of ADD and ADHD.

Dr. Jensen, good evening.

DR. CLAUDIA JENSEN, MEDICAL MARIJUANA ADVOCATE: Hi. Hello. How are you?

OLBERMANN: This is something you feel strongly about. You even testified before Congress a few weeks ago an the use of medical marijuana. What led you to the conclusion that this is a viable treatment for this disorder?

JENSEN: Well, that is what patients reported to me, so I listened to them. And I started paying attention and asking more questions when I did patient interviews. It seems to be rather consistent. They keep saying it over and over again.

OLBERMANN: There are parents who are no doubt thinking, as they watch this, without any kind of analysis or any kind of medical explanation or the expert testimony of a doctor who has listened to patients, that this is that it makes no senses to them, the idea that they are fighting on one front the influence, the pernicious influence of marijuana in a teenager‘s life, a kid‘s life, and yet you are here saying that this can be of enormous value in treating this rampant and life-constricting disease.

How do you respond to people who have the knee-jerk reaction, how could this possibly be any good?

JENSEN: Well, first of all, you‘re right. This is a potentially life-debilitating condition for a lot of children and adolescents. They become very angry.

And I think the answer to that question is that it needs to be evaluated by a physician before it‘s recommended to a child or an adolescent. And the truth is that one of the reasons that adolescents have an increasing use of cannabis, marijuana, in this country is because they‘ve been lied to. They‘ve been told that this is a very dangerous drug and that it has no benefit. And, unfortunately, that‘s not what they experience in the streets.

And I think it‘s more appropriate to bring it up out of the streets and into the doctor‘s offices, so that children and adolescents and parents can learn the truth, get some of the data, and look at this drug not with a reefer madness perspective, but more with a scientific and factual perspective.

OLBERMANN: How would you administer this to children, at what age? And I‘m presuming that the means of dispensing would be primarily those other than smoking it, am I correct?

JENSEN: That‘s what I primarily recommend, particularly with ADD and ADHD, because smoking marijuana has such a short duration. It only lasts an hour and a half to two hours. Plus, there‘s the stigma of the child smoking anything. But smoking pot is a difficult social issue to deal with.

When they ingest those cannabinoids or cannabis compounds, for example, marijuana, it lasts a lot longer. They can get all the way through the day with a single cannabis cookie or piece of toast with cannabis peanut butter in the morning before school. They don‘t have to get stoned. It‘s dose-related. But they do get the benefit of being able to focus and pay attention, not be impulsive, not be angry, be peaceful and relaxed and pay attention in school, which helps them get better grades, which is the important issue.

OLBERMANN: Anything would work.

Dr. Claudia Jensen from USC, many thanks for your time tonight.

JENSEN: Thank you. Thank you for your time.

OLBERMANN: Certainly

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You're a Ritalin pusher!
"You may want to research Dr. Claudia Jensen, clinical instructor at the University of Southern California before calling someone an outrageous liar.

First of all, I do not push Ritalin. Just the opposite. I look for other means of dealing with this issue, and try to disuade parents from using Ritalin as a first step. Second, there are NO STUDIES USING MARIJUANA TO TREAT MINORS FOR ADD/ADHD ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD - NONE. If this person you are so raptured by is doing any reseach she is using adults, not children. No University is going to sign off on using a controlled substance in reseach for any purpose on children. Your claim was that is was proven effective on children, and this is not true.

"Dr. Claudia Jensen is a clinical instructor at the University of Southern California and a practicing pediatrician who advocates the use of medicinal marijuana for the treatment of ADD and ADHD."

Advocating is not providing evidence of it's effectiveness. Think about how marijuana works, and the fact that the effects wear off after a period of time (just like prescribed medications for ADD/ADHD). Are you saying these kids are smoking marijuana at school? Where is this happening? In order to conduct research into how something affects the behaviors of ADD/ADHD kids you'd need to employ the "drug" in the school setting. Otherwise, you are not testing the effects on school performance, which is where ADD/ADHD provides the biggest negative impact on children. You also need control groups. Just because some person makes a claim on MSNBC does not make the claim factual. You shouldn't believe everything you see on T.V., especially MSNBC.

"It was even on TV in april of 2004. Many doctors in California are now using medical marijuana to treat ADD and Oregon is now adding marijuana to the ADD treatment list. There have been many Ritalin deaths. Marijuana has never killed anyone."

No where in California is there any children using marijuana for the treatment of ADHD/ADD. This is just not happening. Ritalin has never directly killed anyone. Ritalin does not posses enough amphetamine to produce death. All the deaths that have been attributed to Ritalin were by suicide, and Ritalin was only one drug those students were taking. You should do a better job of researching your facts. Don't take on an issue with someone who works in that field unless you bring ammunition to the arguement. Don't believe every stupid thing you see/hear on MSNBC, especially from OLBERMANN.