Art so true it’ll make you cringe
While doing the touristy thing in Stockholm, my husband, Dr. Christian Thurstone, and I screeched to a stop when we spied Swedish artist Marcus Mårtenson’s work through the front windows of the Angelika Knäpper Gallery. The colorful, cartoonish images, all...
Response to ‘A Judge’s Plea for Pot’
The New York Times on May 16, 2012 ran a guest column written by Gustin L. Reichbach, a justice of the New York State Supreme Court in Brooklyn. Let’s just say this is the second pro-marijuana-legalization piece spun out of the NYT to catch my eye in recent...
Sure would love to see these everywhere …
While en route to Stockholm to meet members of the World Federation Against Drugs, my husband, Dr. Chris Thurstone, and I hopped a connecting flight at Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J. This ad was the first thing to greet us as we headed into the terminal...
‘The Big Deal’ about marijuana
The numbers rolling into the Colorado Department of Education speak for themselves: school expulsion for drug violations overwhelmingly associated with marijuana use and dealing have rocketed up at alarming rates in this state. Consider: Drug violations reported by...Read the book
Clearing the Haze is a guide designed to help parents determine whether their child may have a substance problem and, if so, how to begin to address it. This book includes the voices and insight of experts in substance abuse counseling, young people in recovery, and parents who have lived the nightmare of adolescent addiction.
