One of my friends has a very autistic child, and I've visited during times when the child's medicine was working and times when it wasn't working. Sounds like the MMJ self-medication worked about the same for the child in the article. None of my children are autistic, but I know that parents of an autistic child have it rough a lot of the time... so I guess it would really be up to the parent and especially whether or not it would be pre-approved by the child's pediatrician. Because if it wasn't approved, and the parents were just giving some of their favorite 'edibles' to the child in hopes of calming him down, this could quickly become a child abuse issue even if the medicine was working.

Personally, if I were in the shoes of my friend, I'd stick with the medicine prescribed by the child's doctor. There have been some pretty big advancements in science and medicine for the treatment of kids with autism... but that's just me.