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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have small kids, but I work with teens as a psychiatrist and have some experience in adolescent rehab centers.  My problem with pot isn't that it causes people to do dangerous things, but just that it causes apathy.  Kids who are smoking don't really care about doing well in school, playing sports, relationships with friends and parents.  I can usually tell within twenty minutes of meeting a kid in my clinic if they are a regular pot smoker.  They just don't care about stuff that most adolescents get all in a tizzy about.  
And besides the impact on future career prospects if a kid tanks high school, there are developmental implications as well.  [b]Kids are supposed to get all depressed when they break up with their first boyfriend or go through any number of high school dramas.[/b]  If you choose not to deal with these things and just get high instead, you are going to be far behind your peers if/when you do decide to cope with normal ups and downs of daily life.  
It also puts kids at higher risk for developing psychosis as they get older.
So, no, finding your daughter smoking pot in her room on a Sunday afternoon isn't as bad as finding her passed out drunk in your front yard on Saturday night, but it is something to take seriously.[/quote]

You have some valid points, but LOL at the bolded above....as a psychiatrist, it must be good for business when kids "get all depressed" with their breakups and high school dramas.

Let me ask you this--do you prescribe your teenage patients things like Adderal, Ritalin, Xanax, etc.?

Just an FYI--nearly every coke head at my competitive university was prescribed (and abused) those "legal" drugs in high school.  If you think the majority of your teenage patients are taking those drugs as prescribed, you are sadly mistaken.  Many of them are crushing them up and snorting, passing them out to their friends like Skittles, and looking for more aggressive stimulant options (like coke) once they reach college.[/quote]

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