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Pot Use Could Cut Block Party Problems

Susan Lampert Smith’s column on Thursday, “Mifflin block party may get a visitor to remember,” about the young man who fell off a Mifflin Street balcony after having too much to drink was illuminating. One of the things that struck me most was the young man’s mother’s comments about the patient population at the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Center: “Half the people are in there because of alcohol-related accidents. Maybe three-fourths of them, if you count accidents where someone else was drinking and driving.”