In December 2006, Brant Clark went to a party at a friend’s house. It was the 17-year-old’s winter break. He would be graduating high school soon, and like many teenagers, he enjoyed smoking cannabis socially.
Brant excelled in school and planned to attend college in the fall. He mowed lawns in his neighborhood and worked part-time as a busboy.
“He was the joy of my life,” said Ann Clark, his mother, “and then things went terribly wrong.”
When Brant returned home the next morning, his mother said something had noticeably changed in him. He had not slept all night, he told his mother, and he expressed a deep sense of emptiness and hopelessness. Over and over, he told his mother he made a mistake by smoking.
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