My beautiful, handsome smart as a whip son started smoking weed at age 14 and turned into a rageful sulking high school drop out who is now isolated from the rest of us and basically nonfunctional. He is on the mental health radar. There was no help to be had. I am a lawyer and I spoke to lawyers, judges, mental health professionals, police officers, crisis counselors. My ex is general counsel for a hospital. He spoke to hospital administrators, lawyers, police officers, psychologists etc. There is no help to be had. The families are left to their own devices to deal with these kids. And yes, marijuana is a gateway drug. My other children “turned out” beautifully, praise God. It is heartbreaking and I pray for my son daily and I pay his bills. I don’t want him in prison or under a bridge.
Very sorry to hear about your son.
‘My beautiful, handsome smart as a whip son started smoking weed at age 14 and turned into a rageful sulking high school drop out...’
and what about all the high school kids who smoked weed and didn’t turn out like that...? stories of teenagers doing things that are socially frowned upon are legion, and they always will be...forbidden fruit and all that sort of thing...
cannabis use is extremely prevalent in the upper school grades and colleges; you would be hard pressed to find a successful profession that is not peopled by those who have consumed weed at some point in their lives....