Re: Behavior Worth Medicating?

Hubby's nephew(23) came by to visit not too long ago, brought a friend along. We were sitting on the deck and friend pulls out a pipe and some marijuana and lights up. I told him to be discreet as our neighbor is a sherriff. He said "No worries, I've got the card"...I said "Card? What card"?
He had a medical marijuana card. I asked why, he seemed normal although a bit hyper...

He replied that he was diagnosed with "hyperactivity" as a child and was drugged from the age of 6 till he was about 18 or so. As a result of this long-term drugging, he has twitches and shakings and spasms, muscular and in his thought pattern as well, that became apparent as we conversed. He is unable to focus, to hold a thought or follow a conversational thread. He cannot keep his hands still...

I asked him how he felt about the fact that he was drugged for so long. He didn't seem to have a problem with it, he seemed to believe that there WAS something so drastically wrong with him as a child that he needed it. And he seems to accept the fact that his thought process is forever altered, that he will most likely have twitches and spasms for the rest of his life, with equinamity.

The pot DOES mellow him out, BTW. Slows down the shaking & slows down the jumping around of thoughts. Doesn't CHANGE anything, just slows it down...

I suppose the fact that he lives in a fluoridated community helps as far as accepting his fate goes.... Tweet