California isn’t buying it anymore
As the latest rounds of initiatives for marijuana legalization in California, Colorado, Oregon and Washington demonstrate, so-called “medical marijuana” very quickly leads to pushes for expansion of access to the drug and to well-funded and highly...
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,...
Reflections from a public hearing about marijuana
Egads. Do I know my way around a public hearing. As a longtime journalist, I have spent countless hours in government meeting halls listening and watching and listening and watching and … So, when my husband, Dr. Christian Thurstone, was asked to testify March...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.