Doc asks what’s up with pot dispensaries
Several of my young patients in Denver have told me how ridiculously easy it was to get the medical marijuana licenses that fueled the addictions that drove them into my clinic for treatment. One young man said the recommending physician he paid $200 for a license...
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...
‘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.