U.S. child psychiatrists issue warning
I am a member of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and I am pleased AACAP has issued this policy statement rejecting the use of medical marijuana for adolescents and sounding alarm bells for the world. As the society wrote, “The...
10 reasons not to legalize marijuana
I’m honored to have been elected president of the Colorado Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Society. In November, the organization’s member physicians asked me to speak during their annual dinner — so know that in the video I link you to here,...
Tax pot, and we’ll come out ahead? Riiiiight.
A common justification for marijuana legalization goes something like this: “We should just tax it and regulate it like we do alcohol and tobacco. We could use some of that money to help with the costs of addiction treatment.” Yeah, um, no. Substance...Read the book
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