Chris Thurstone, M.D. is a Colorado child psychiatrist who studies adolescent addiction and writes about the problems he witnesses of our youth using marijuana. In a recent article, he notes the similar 8 point decline in children’s IQ that has been documented for both lead exposure and marijuana use by youth, and our society’s quite different response to the two causes
About Dr. Thurstone (from his website) –
Dr. Christian Thurstone is one of fewer than three dozen physicians in the United States who are board certified in general, child and adolescent and addictions psychiatry. He is medical director of one of Colorado’s largest youth substance-abuse-treatment clinics and an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Colorado Denver, where he conducts research on youth substance use and addiction. Dr. Thurstone has completed medical training at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University and UCD. In 2010, he completed five years of mentored research training through the National Institute on Drug Abuse/American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry K12 Research Program in Substance Abuse.
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