SK>JK>There were several members of my daughter's high school class who did
SK>JK>not make it to graduation because of this "hardly troublesome drug".
SK>How do you know this? Pot made them not graduate, eh.
They died in automobile accidents around 2-3 am before they had a chance
to graduate.  The rate that pot leaves is different that the rate that
alcohol does (go find out from someone who loves nitty gritty details, I
don't)  and that causes problems when kids are driving home from
parties.
Others die in their sleep from other drug combinations.  I nearly had
one teenager do so in an Alaskan jail on me......he'd gotten into this
sister's Valium while drinking with his buddies.  Went into
Cheyne-Stokes respirations after around 6 hours of heavy sleep following
an initial highly excited state.  The EMT's had brightly strapped him on
his back for transport to Ketchikan and I went in the small plane along
with his father and the pilot.  Fortunately I was able to slap him awake
during the 15 minute flight and we radioed ahead for paramedics to meet
the plane.  I refused to allow him to be taken off the plane until both
an I.V. and oxygen were started.  It took until noon that day for his
kidneys to begin to work again and for him to void.
The sad part about this is that the doctor was too young and opinionated
to know what was going on and so were the nurses in the hospital.  They
continued the I.V.and the oxygen as I knew they would.
The high school and the Presbyterian minister knew what was going on
and so did the mayor.  This was on an island, incidently, several air
miles from any hospital.  The bush.  The high school got a psychologist
down from Juneau to make certain the kid was brain damaged.  He ended up
committing suicide a year later, after I had left the island.
 
I'd taken care of some very sick patients in the alcohol
treatment unit in a Seattle hospital before going to Alaska.  I'd also
learned about respiratory failure the hard way.
Drug combinations are not something one likes to meet up with in any
sick person at 2-3 am when the patient has outsmarted him or herself.
I've seen enough of all of them to realize that no addict can be trusted
with the use of any drug at all, even aspirins in some cases.
SK>But I did say that ALL drugs and alcohol and even cigarettes should not
SK>be consumed by kids. Just as driving cars is a right reserved to those
SK>over the legal age to do so.
SK>The acts of children need to be addressed by those kids
SK>parents...PERIOD! They aren't MY kids..nor the governments.
SK>JK>I have also worked in a county jail, several treatment units, and
SK>JK>other places where those who were adversely affected by this "best
SK>JK>drug" outlined the very real problems they had with the stuff.
SK>So these criminals, drug addicts, and such were thus because of Pot?
SK>Come on. It's alcohol that causes more crime and also more need for
SK>treatment than Pot. Thus my point...the SAFEST. If it's not the safest,
SK>what is?
SK>JK>Keep on defending your "right" to use it.
SK>I'm not defending my right to use it. I DON'T us it. I have. Therefore I
SK>know what it is like, and I know what I'm talking about. I know that it
SK>is quite a safe drug.
SK>You can keep defending your belief that putting people in prison is GOOD
SK>for them...better for them than smoking Pot. But, alcohol is A.O.K.
SK>cause it's legal.
SK>  The use of it, however, is still a Federal crime.
SK>Yep. A illogical and hypocritical system has made it so.
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