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OP,

I am reading a book called The Teenage Brain, written by neurologist Frances Jensen, in which she demonstrates (with graphs and quotes directly from research papers) why the teen brain is particularly vulnerable to drugs of any kind, alcohol and lack of sleep. She has a whole chapter on marijuana.

Please read it and discuss it with your son. He is not to blame for thinking pot is harmless - look at the new legislation coming out.

He should be smart enough and rational enough to admit that he is putting himself at risk, right at the moment when he can afford it the least.

I assume he has debilitating anxiety and that is why he is withdrawing and finding other sources of interaction? Tell him that college isn't the be-all, end-all. That all you want is that he doesn't close all the doors thoughtlessly.

A good person to talk to would be Dr. Bill Stixrud, a well-known psychologist with a practice in Silver Spring. He makes a living talking to underperforming teens whose parents are panicked :-)
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