Cannabis for Children, a Pediatrician's Experience, with Dr. Bonni Goldstein

Cannabis for Children, a Pediatrician's Experience, with Dr. Bonni Goldstein. We spoke with Dr. Bonni Goldstein at the IACM Cannabinoids in Medicine conference 2019 in Berlin, Germany. Dr. Goldstein is a trained pediatrician and practicing cannabis specialist in Los Angeles, USA. Dr. Goldstein has successfully treated over 900 children with serious medical conditions including epilepsy, autism, various cancers, anxiety, depression, bipolar, eating disorders, OCD and ADHD among others, using cannabis medicines. Dr. Goldstein explained to her "do no harm" approach to giving these otherwise untreatable kids and their families a second chance to live healthy, happy lives. She said patients achieve the quality of life improvements, fewer side-effects, more alert, more awake, starting to talk, using fewer pharmaceuticals, fewer hospitalizations, and other benefits. Dr. Goldstein also said other physicians are now understanding that they can alleviate unnecessary suffering using cannabis as medicine. She describes that for pediatric epilepsy this means significant reductions in potentially brain-damaging seizures or even complete freedom from seizures [without the terrible side effects of current anti-epileptic drugs]. In her practice, cannabis medicines reduce the crazy behavior of kids with autism to reveal the person underneath [where there is no safe and effective treatment currently available].