Illinois: Family Holds Rally Advocating Medical Cannabis Be Used for Treating Autism
The Ihm family has exhausted 21 different treatment methods to control the violent outbursts of their 8-year-old son, Ethan, who has a severe form of autism.
No drug has been successful and institutionalization is becoming a more likely outcome, said Ethan’s brother, Elliott.
But still exploring other options, the Ihm family organized a rally Thursday afternoon in downtown DeKalb to implore the Illinois Department of Public Health to allow them to consider another possible treatment for Ethan, medical cannabis.
Signs reading “Help Legalize Medicine” and “Honk for Hash” crowded the corner of Lincoln Parkway and First Street. By 4:30 p.m., about 15 supporters were holding signs.
Elliott Ihm said that the aim wasn’t to allow medical cannabis as a first line of treatment for autism, nor were children meant to smoke the cannabis, since treatment methods can come in droplet form as well. He added that he was unsure if...
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