🚀 go-pugleaf

Laura, I'll stay hopeful that the drug program will have the desired
effect on your son and that he'll rejoined the activity of life.   It
just struck me as too coincidental that another 'drug' can have the same
withdrawing effect on our youth and adolescents - television.
Hopefully, we can avoid the same conclusion for our current tool of
communication, entertainment and information, the internet.

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Laura Kent [SMTP:LWK5@AOL.COM]
        Sent:   Thursday, October 29, 1998 6:15 PM
        To:     TBI-SPRT@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
        Subject:        Re: marijuana and a head injury

        I can relate on a personal level to your concersn Marie. My son
started using
        pot shortly after my head injury. We noticed his get up and go
..got up and
        went....his grades at school dropped and he just sat around
doing a whole lot
        of nothing...(sounds like what i was doing at the time) I wonder
how much of
        his drug use was his way of coping with what happened to
me....also the fact
        that i was so out of it i didn't notice any of th signs of use
as i'm sure i
        would have.  He is now starting into a rehab program designed
for teenage pot
        smokers which is supposed to help them stop before it becomes a
huge
        problem..Many of the symptoms of cronic pot use are the same as
TBI so i think
        that says it all for me. I agree that there are times like in
the case of
        cancer where pot can be used as a medicine and i also agree that
the Dr.
        prescribed drugs can be as bad if not worse for you, but all in
all when it's
        said and done i don't like what it has done to my son. Laura K