New York, Sept. 10—A few months ago I offered to send out a report by a Canadian psychiatrist on the effects of marijuana to any readers who requested it. I was—to be fair, my office was— overwhelmed by the response. Thirty thousand readers asked for a copy of the findings. With a few of these I struck up a correspondence. One of them sent me a copy of a letter he had sent to two of his sons. I must pass it along.
Dear Sons: M. N., after your spring vacation, suggested to me that you were both smoking pot. Your headmaster, John, let fall a cryptic remark whose innuendo I chose not to accept. Your final report, Jim, excellent as it is, does mention a lessening in your community participation over the past several months. The main complaint from your headmaster about you, John, is that you have this past year “retired” from the school and school activities and withdrawn into yourself.
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