Posted on May 7, 2024 View all news
My son and granddaughter were fun-loving, very intelligent people before they started smoking cannabis. They began to not care about anything as smoked marijuana.
My son eventually had a psychosis and was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. He received a series of meds for eight years. He was able to wean himself off his meds after he stopped using cannabis, which took a year and a half. It was very difficult for him to do. He is 49 years old and can not work high-stress jobs as some symptoms return.
My granddaughter started smoking cannabis at the age of 13 just to be popular with her friends. She was a straight-A student and a good athlete. By the time she was 15, she was on meth and cocaine and involved in petty crimes with the wrong crowd. The school principal gave her an ultimatum of going to detox for six months or being kicked out of school. She did the detox twice because she wanted to graduate. She is on many meds. One psychiatrist gave her the wrong meds, and she became psychotic and required hospitalization. She finally was able to stop meth, cocaine, and cannabis, but she turned to alcohol. She has a good job and wants to work, but her present psychiatrist keeps putting her off work at the time.
It’s a rough road for any of these kids who start smoking cannabis before their brains develop. The meds often leave remnants of obsessive-compulsive behavior even when they don’t take them anymore.
Please don’t make the same mistake that Canada did. Protect your youth. Decriminalize but never legalize cannabis.
C. LeBlanc, B.Sc., Nutritionist
