Blog posts by Mieko Hester-Perez

Benaya is two and a half years old. He was diagnosed with severe autism a year ago. He is highly unregulated, very agitated, and nonverbal. Before we started medicating him with cannabis oil, Benaya didn't have any physical gestures. In the two months since we started his treatment with cannabis, we have literally witnessed miracles happen for him and for us...

In 2009 my family went public on using cannabis to treat my son Joey’s autism symptoms. I knew I needed a supportive medical team but most of all I needed legal counsel by my side at all times to address state laws that give child protective services social workers the authority to come into a home and remove children on the basis of state negligence laws (that have not caught up to marijuana legislative bills.)

We’ve spoken to so many people in the industry from CBD manufacturers, doctors, pharmacists, and parents whose child had similar conditions but mostly with autism... So, we decided to go public because in hopes that other parents like us would not be afraid to share their story and in turn we created the Luv N Cann podcast.

Our son was diagnosed with severe, regressive Autism and we came across some research that cannabis was helping kids with seizures and we prayed it would help our son. When we discover raw, whole-plant cannabis high in CBDa that's when we had our breakthrough...

And this is what I do here in Israel at Cannafora (Cannabis for Autism treatment center I’ve founded) - the "hands on" part with the families to get the right cannabis product and the right dosing and balance for their autistic child...