From Robert B., writing to two prominent podcasters on THC in athletics:
My daughter, Shana, who is 14, listened to some of your other podcasts earlier in the year and learned so much from you both, as she pursues her running dreams.… Read the rest
From Robert B., writing to two prominent podcasters on THC in athletics:
My daughter, Shana, who is 14, listened to some of your other podcasts earlier in the year and learned so much from you both, as she pursues her running dreams.… Read the rest
WE DID IT!!! With 10 minutes left before midnight on the east coast, we hit our $42,000 goal for our 2nd annual Johnny’s Ambassadors #StopDabbing walk! We had 142 participants, 266 donations, 27 teams, and 46,976 social media reach! While every single person involved is to thank, I want to recognize the top ten fundraisers and teams:
TOP TEN FUNDRAISERS:
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By Laura Stack
In 2006, a “Dr. Leth Argos” published a pointed parody article in The BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) aimed at the pharmaceutical industry‘s tendency toward disease mongering: i.e., creating and promoting new illnesses in order to sell more products.… Read the rest
I have two sons who have been adversely affected by marijuana use. My older son started using MJ in college. He had his first hospitalization in 2011 at the age of 20 due to a MJ induced psychosis. Long story short this over the years resulted in a bipolar diagnosis, turning his and our lives upside down.… Read the rest
By Laura Stack
Decades ago, Big Tobacco realized their consumer base was steadily killing itself off due to illnesses caused by heavy tobacco use, particularly emphysema, heart disease, and cancers. The industry kept this to themselves, because the only way to maintain said consumer base was by recruiting more smokers as the others died, especially young people.… Read the rest
By Laura Stack
One of the dirtiest of modern marijuana’s Dirty Dozen outcomes of adolescent marijuana use is the fact that it can cause some users to experience psychotic episodes, and worse, permanent cases of schizophrenia in otherwise stable individuals. I’m not talking about upset feelings or mild paranoia.… Read the rest
IASIC, the International Academy on the Science and Impact of Cannabis, is a medical organization of doctors who educate on marijuana based on the scientific and medical literature. IASIC is a non-partisan and non-political group created to facilitate informed decisions when considering cannabis policy and law. |
I was a good student at school. I wasn’t entirely great, but I understood that hard work would pay off. Sadly, I was to learn about work-life balance the hard way. At eighteen, I did a gap year (from England to Canada – in Banff).… Read the rest
My son, age 23, is addicted to weed and gambling. He has been struggling for 5 years now. He moved home with me after being in and out of college at OSU. He suffered from severe anxiety and depression. Never leaving his bed.… Read the rest
By Laura Stack
I’ve said it before: smoking, dabbing, or otherwise abusing marijuana makes you dumb. And science can prove it. In addition to the multiple studies showing how long-term marijuana use impairs your judgment, making you stop caring about negative consequences, AND drops your IQ permanently by as many as eight IQ points, other studies show a correlation between daily marijuana use and early high school drop-out rates.… Read the rest