Hello. How are you? Good. Who said good? You did? Okay. Good. Glad to hear that. How about everybody else? How are you? Before we start the topic of today's class, I just want to answer some of the emails. I responded to some emails. I said I will discuss it in class. I'm going to answer some of those emails. How many of you did not know anything about the information that I presented last Wednesday about bad drugs on college campuses? You just didn't know anything. Anything that I presented was brand new. So you've heard, I am pretty sure that every student in this class knows that if you're underage, you should not be drinking alcohol, and if you're over age or at the age, you have to be responsible. But for some students, it was quite shocking to find out that if you provide alcohol to a minor, and in the case of Noah, then that minor dies because apparently, the student Googled the student, the situation it was last year in January on this campus. Actually, this happened off-campus, but the student was a UCI student. So yes, that is a misdemeanor, you're not supposed to do that. But if we take one step even further, what I was trying to convey to you is to be responsible adults. It is very easy to feel pressure in a party, in a social event and say that "I'm going to give it a try." But sometimes we don't know what our pharmacogenomic makeup is. That one time that could be safe for you, it may not be safe for this other student. One student in an email said that, "Were you trying to scare us?" I don't think of these lectures in terms of scaring you are not scaring you. But if my presentation and some of the content that I presented scared you, that's totally fine. Because even me as an adult who's much older than you, I would be scared of some of those drugs that I presented. For some of you, this notion of energy drinks being so bad was also novel. I'm not going to ask you to raise your hands, but I know that some students in this classroom, you drink those energy drinks, especially during finals, to stay up, don't do that. This is the bottom line. Don't do that because those energy drinks are packed with caffeine and sugar and other things. Guarana was one of the ingredients that we talked about and I showed you the plant. One of my friends almost died because of Guarana toxicity. She thought that it's a safe product because it's a plant and it's beautiful, it's a flower. How could this be so dangerous? I published their paper, a case report on cardiovascular adverse effects of Guarana. If I scared you, I'm okay with that. This is what I'm trying to say. But I want you to think and I want you to practice mindfulness. One thing that you're going to learn from this class, I'm hoping, is the practice of mindfulness in pretty much everything that you do. Even today, we are going to talk about what is the topic for today? Personal finances. We're going to talk about mindfulness because I think if you practice mindfulness it's very helpful. Yes? I forgot to remind you, would you still want to talk about medical marijuana? Oh yes, yes. That was one of the questions and actually, Jessica brought it up. Two students came to my office hour, talking about medical marijuana. There is definitely a place for the use of marijuana. Medical marijuana works. I'm not going to stand here and say it doesn't. We have had cases of epilepsy and seizure in pediatric patients and they don't respond to anything. You keep throwing drugs at them and they don't respond. Medical marijuana for these patients sometimes works. Then marijuana becomes medically legal in Colorado, many families moved to Colorado with their kids with epilepsy who were refractory to other medications so that their children can benefit from medical marijuana. Medical marijuana works for various types of pains, not for everything, but for some. I have had friends who have migraines, migraine headaches, and they use medical marijuana and it helps. What I was trying to say last week, that the discussion was about abusing marijuana. I hope I'm clear on that and thank you, Jessica, for reminding me.
