Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence

Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
EXCERPT: Seventy miles northwest of New York City is a hospital that looks like a prison, its drab brick buildings wrapped in layers of fencing and barbed wire. This grim facility is called the Mid-Hudson Forensic Psychiatric Institute. It’s one of three places the state of New York sends the criminally mentally ill—defendants judged not guilty by reason of insanity.

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