3-Year-Old Gets Medical Marijuana Over Chemo As Cancer Treatment

from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml8CZ2q2zrE

"One year ago, 3-year-old Landon Riddle was diagnosed with leukemia. Under doctors' orders, his mother Sierra Riddle began treatment for her young son: aggressive chemotherapy and radiation. But while still living in Utah, Sierra watched her little boy become violently ill from the chemotherapy -- Landon suffered nerve-damage in his legs, nausea that led to vomiting dozens of times a day, intense pain and at one point went 25 days without eating following the treatment, according to CNN. "Around the clock, he was usually on liquid morphine, Ativan, Promethexane," Sierra told CNN back in July. "And it just really didn't seem to be helping." Feeling like her family "didn't have anything left to lose" she looked into medical marijuana treatment. She moved her family to Colorado Springs, Colo. to benefit from the state's marijuana laws and started to give Landon liquid forms of both Cannabidiol, or CBD, and Tetrahydrocannabinol, also known as THC. "Within four weeks we could see the improvement," Sierra told KRDO...".* Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur break it down on The Young Turks.

*Read more here from Matt Ferner: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09...

Download audio and video of the full two hour show on-demand + the members-only post game show by becoming a member at http://www.tytnetwork.com/member-opti.... Your membership supports the day to day operations and is vital for our continued success and growth.

Join The Young Turks Network mailing list http://www.tytnetwork.com/member-opti...

or Support The Young Turks by Subscribing http://www.youtube.com/user/theyoungt...

Like Us on Facebook:
Follow Us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/theyoungturks

Support TYT for FREE by doing your Amazon shopping through this link (bookmark it!) http://www.amazon.com/?tag=theyoungtu...

Buy TYT Merch: http://theyoungturks.spreadshirt.com/

Children of Darkness

from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTCSfx47R1w

Children of Darkness is an Oscar nominated 1983 documentary film produced and written by Richard Kotuk and Ara Chekmayan. It explored the topic of juvenile psychiatry - an acute lack of mental health care in America for seriously emotionally disturbed youth.

Many children in these institutions were simply warehoused and the common basic form of therapy was drugs, which didn't really help the kids but merely controlled them. The film not only uncovered the mistreatments in mental institutions but it also captured the cold realization that mental illness can happen to anyone. Public mental institutions were not just for the poor. Children from middle class families and upper middle class families often ended up there due to inadequate insurance money and dwindled savings.