Saturday, January 26, 2019

Worth Reading: Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence

Worth Reading: Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
Excerpt: Until recently, my wife Jackie­—Dr. Jacqueline Berenson—was a senior psychiatrist there. Many of Mid-Hudson’s 300 patients are killers and arsonists. At least one is a cannibal. Most have been diagnosed with psychotic disorders like schizophrenia that provoked them to violence against family members or strangers. A couple of years ago, Jackie was telling me about a patient. In passing, she said something like, Of course he’d been smoking pot his whole life. Of course? I said. Yes, they all smoke.

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