Medical Marijuna for ADD/ADHD

We all know that the use of medical marijuana is on the up rise in this country for many reasons such as Muscular dystrophy, Anorexia, Cancer, and many other medical conditions that are accompanied with high levels of pain, but when I heard that we are giving medical marijuana to children for Attention Deficit Disorder I had to do some research on the topic. I went to a web page that had a few links to follow up on this topic http://www.showmethefacts.org/medical-marijuana-facts/add-adhd/ and on that page the first link I clicked on http://mcforadhd.free.fr/symptomsen.html this gave me some pretty interesting information. They stated that good reasons to treat Attention Deficit Disorder with medical marijuana were lack of attention, because the THC in the marijuana slows the brain down and therefore patients would be able to focus more; sexual hyperactivity, they listed no reason how marijuana would help with this; and my favorite alcohol and drug abuse tendencies, it would help with this because patients would use cannabis (marijuana) use as a substitute for these addictions. I could not believe what I was reading! If this was seriously the scientific evidence that was to support our society in giving marijuana to young children I was about to be completely let down. There also was a video listed with an actual doctor supporting this issue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj72e5q61Fs. In this video the doctor implies (at least how I perceived it) that the reason teenagers with ADD start smoking marijuana is because it helps them and that we as a society have been the fools by trying to redirect our children to not smoke marijuana. The doctor then states she started supporting the use of medical marijuana for ADD because she started listening to her patients tell her how good the drug was for them. I thought to myself, well of course they are going to say that, it is a mood altering substance. I always feel good or rather better when my mood has been altered as well. Has our society really forgotten the harmful effects that marijuana can have on the human mind physically, mentally, and psychologically? Lets refresh our memory here, to use marijuana is to take a chemical and run it through our brain where it effects our pleasure center. You are changing the way you feel by changing the way your brains pleasure center normally functions creating a mental disorder. Humm? Sounds like robbing Peter to pay Paul. Also, marijuana effects chromosomes, sex and reproductive organs and hormones in a negative way. All this is supported by the article http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/viewanswers.asp?questionID=000235 I bet evolutionary psychologists just love that. Lets give it to our nine year old son and see if he can produce a daughter with a perfectly symmetrical face? I could go on and on about the negative effects of marijuana. I think the most important argument here is children with ADD are at a substantially higher risk to develop an addiction problem as it is. Giving young children marijuana at an early age just introduces them to addiction earlier, we as a society are saying here, "We know your going to use drugs so just stick to the pot." When people use a drug they develop drug related behaviors, we are just introducing our children to these behaviors at an earlier age. Imagine what this does to their self-esteem, to their will to better themselves. It just blows me away that our society wants to say " Here kid smoke a joint and just exist, because your behaviors are to out of control for us to tolerate". Talk about developing a lazy society. Marijuana never kills anyone they say, or it is better than drinking alcohol. Well, unfortunately drug addiction kills everyday, it destroys entire families. Then when you compare it to alcohol what are you really saying there, that having no ambition in life and delaying your thought process is better than getting into a bar fight or driving drunk? I think they are still in the same category of " my life sucks". This is not a message I want to send to anyone who already has a hard struggle with life as it is. In conclusion, it will be interesting to see how this great idea will impact us in a social psychological point of view. Its almost like our society has went with the old saying " Heck, if you cant beat them join them" and finding every reason under the sun to do so.