Did you say
that he admitted to you
that he exaggerated everything
to get him involuntarily committed
to the psychiatric ward?
Yes, yes he admitted to me
that he exaggerated
to get him involuntarily
'cause he's-- He lied.
Exaggerated and lied to get him involuntarily admitted
into the psych ward.
And he said that with everything he put down in the papers
they would have to take him in
because of what was in there.
I did not say that.
He lied and said Dril strangled him,
cut his wrists and guess what
the whole time that I was talking to him
almost every single day,
multiple times a day over the phone
I never heard one time that Dril strangled him
he would have told me and made that clear.
Okay did you say to her
that you embellished to make sure
that they did admit him to protect him?
I did say that I wrote down everything
that I thought I possibly could put in there
and some of it may have been a little bit extreme yes.
Extreme, down and out right lies.
I never tried to cut myself,
I scratched myself on a tree.
Hold on okay. And when you said that
that was my suicide attempt?
No I never said that. I think that
you're missing the point here.
The point I was trying to make is
did he misrepresent reality in order to get you there
and let me tell you what I think for sure.
I think the way people behave here is a mirror
to the way they behave out there.
And I want to tell you the good and
the bad that I see here.
I think that you're very condescending
and a know it all.
(audience applauding)
And I think you don't,
I think you wouldn't know.
I think you wouldn't know cannabis induced psychosis
if it rolled up here and crawled up in your lap.
I think you throw that term around
in a very reckless way and I think that's very dangerous.
So I think that's very misguided
and as a result I think you have encroached
in your son's space and gotten
in his life in a way that you shouldn't.
I think that
there are millions of sons
in America that would give their front seat in hell
to have a father love them as much
as you love your son.
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And I take my hat off to you
for as much as you love and care about your son
and there's no but that follows that.
I'm a Dad I recognize a Dad
that cares about their son.
I have two sons so I know what it's like,
I know what it's like to have a son
and be concerned about wanting the best for your son.
I also know that he has made
some really poor decisions in his life along the way.
And I think you wake up at night worrying
about what the next poor decision is gonna be.
And so you try
to build a fence
to protect him from himself sometimes.
But I think sometimes we can try
so hard to do that that we can push them away.
You don't have to love everything
someone does to love them
and to show that.
Are you trying to tell me though,
and I just need to understand this,
that his use of cannabis should continue?
I would prefer that he never smoked dope again
for the rest of his life.
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I like that.
That would be my preference because I know
what it des to the dopamine neurotransmitters
of the brain and having had a brain injury,
and then putting cannabis inside
the brain and disrupting the dopamine neurotransmitters
makes him subject
to having more disruption
from that than anyone else.
So I would rather him not even be in the room
with somebody that's smoking marijuana
for the rest of his life.
So I don't disagree with you
or your value I just disagree with your method.
I never method.