An enduring theme of our highly evolved 'war' on drugs is the
notion that 'kids' shouldn't use 'drugs.' So politically correct has
that taboo become, most 'anti-drug' laws now provide for enhanced
penalties for violations occurring within some arbitrarily fixed
distance from a school.
The 'kid' taboo has also made most physicians, including (or perhaps,
especially) 'pot docs,' reluctant to use 'kids' and 'drugs' in the same
sentence; let alone 'recommend' that a 'kid' use pot. On the
other hand, my routinely taken histories confirm that most adults
'initiate' all the psychotropic drugs they will ever try by age 25 (the
obvious exceptions are usually prescribed by physicians; more on that
subject later).
Because his patient's remarkable history contains so many of the themes
encountered in milder form in many of my own applicants, I'm
urging anyone with an serious interest in medical pot to read the
history of Alex
P in the current CounterPunch (courtesy of Tod Mikuriya, MD &
Fred Gardner).
