Isn't it ironic.. don't ya think

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Tied these two stories together and trust you guys will notice why.

 

Personally don't condone the use of cannabis or ssri's for kids at all, unless topical for infants with thc tincture.

 

Have to wonder how many parents would feel a little nervous if made face 8 years jail for dipping their childs dummy in some cherry, rum, or beer tho..

 

 

 

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,,24744237-1702,00.html

 

Texas man Vanswan Polty pleads guilty to giving children cannabis

 

A MAN who was videotaped coaxing two young children to smoke pot has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

 

Texas man Vanswan Polty, 20, made a plea deal at the beginning of his trial in Fort Worth yesterday on more serious charges involving organised crime.

 

He faces 99 years in prison on those charges and could have been jailed for 10 on two charges of causing injury to a child, The Dallas Morning News reports.

 

Fort Worth police investigating burglaries found the videotape while searching a house.

 

The video showed Polty and his friend, 17-year-old Demetris McCoy, giving a two-year-old boy and four-year-old boy a cannabis cigarette.

 

Polty and McCoy, the boys' uncle, laughed and joked as they urged the boys to smoke, investigators said.

 

McCoy pleaded guilty to two counts of injury to a child. He was sentenced to eight years in prison and had agreed to testify against Polty.

 

Drug tests on the children showed they had marijuana and cocaine in their system.

 

Their mother, who was asleep in another room when they were given the cannabis, gave up her parental rights last year and the boys will be put up for adoption.

 

 

 

 

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story...6-23289,00.html

 

 

Nicola Roxon probes babies' drugs

 

 

FEDERAL Health Minister Nicola Roxon has launched an investigation into whether anti-depressants are being improperly prescribed following revelations that babies and toddlers are being given the drugs.

 

Responding to figures published by The Australian yesterday showing infants younger than 12 months old were prescribed anti-depressants last year, Ms Roxon said she would be concerned if children who did not need medication were being unnecessarily treated.

 

"I have asked the department to consider, in consultation with the National Prescribing Service and Medicare Australia, whether there are further ways of ensuring that these medicines are only being used appropriately," Ms Roxon said.

 

Nearly 4000 children younger than 10 were prescribed anti-depressants in Australia last financial year, including 553 children younger than five and 48 babies younger than 12 months, according to Department of Health and Ageing data.

 

Australia's Adverse Drug Reactions Advisory Committee warns doctors against prescribing any of the SSRI anti-depressants -- aside from two which are approved for obsessive compulsive disorder in children older than six -- to children younger than 18. The drug companies also advise against their use for any condition.

 

There appears to be no medical reason for pre-school children being prescribed anti-depressants. Specialist doctors organisations representing general practitioners, psychiatrists and pediatricians expressed shock at the figures and said they had no idea who was prescribing to such young children or why.

 

"I'd say to the commonwealth Department of Health, please give us more information," said Caroline Johnson, from the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.

 

That such young children were being prescribed anti-depressants was "deeply unsettling" and highlighted Australia's poor record in analysing and acting on health data, said NPS head Janette Randall.

 

"How many other scripts are being written for these drugs for very young children?" Dr Randall asked.