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Article: Why pot's not cool: how marijuana messes with your brain and body.(DRUGS & ALCOHOL)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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Late one evening in the fall of 2004, doctors wheeled a 17-year-old girl into the emergency room at the Stanford University Medical Center in California. The girl was suffering from multiple injuries sustained when the car she was driving flipped over. The teen survived, but another girl, who'd been sitting in the passenger seat, did not. At the hospital, doctors tested the driver's blood for toxins or drugs. The test results showed that the driver had smoked marijuana, or pot, before the crash.
"She was a nice kid who really, really messed up," said Kelly Murphy, one of the doctors on call that night. "It's sad. She was only 17, and now she faces charges of ...
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