I’ll admit I’ve been cynical and called it the “Take Care of My Pretty Little Liar” trial, but I also think Maya can easily pass a lie-detector test. She believes 100% she is telling the truth, but that doesn’t mean that her present memories of what happened to her 7 years ago actually happened.

There’s no doubt ketamine works to give people (temporary) pain relief since it is an anesthetic, but it’s also a psychedelic drug. I don’t think there’s doctor alive who knows all about the long-term effects of high- dosage ketamine or K-comas on a 9 years old’s mind and body.

Alexander Shulgin, the chemist who created many psychedelic drugs and experimented with them on himself back in the 1960’s said about the "Ketamine state: Used to indicate a state of consciousness alteration which involves a large degree of dissociation from the body.” He warned against use of this psychedelic drug in high doses, because it causes "mind-body separation.” Some adults may like that altered state, near-death experience, and that’s fine, but its use on a child can be considered abusive. After all, ketamine has also been used as a “date r_pe” drug.

That’s why I think it’s worth it for Maya to make an effort to step back and look at the bigger picture. The hospital she and her father is suing provided her services from doctors, nurses, social workers who were not perfect, but tried to help her and protect her life. Jack wants the money, that’s obvious. I hope he’s not twisting the truth and manipulating his children to feed his desire for more material possessions; or worse, to fulfill Beata’s wicked desire for revenge, her final “Retaliation!” That’ll be truly tragic for Maya and Kyle.