“This could very well be my story. My son is just completing his treatment program thru CU ARTS program. If wanted, they come to your home and counsel you and the family twice a week for an hour and half, plus they have a bonus-based drug sobriety testing program. … Read the rest
What’s the Big Deal About Marijuana Potency?
By Laura Stack
The more powerful the marijuana product, the more likely it will damage your brain. Probably slowly, but possibly immediately. That’s not anti-marijuana propaganda; it’s proven scientific fact.
Less than a century ago, this would have been enough to put most people off marijuana for good.… Read the rest
NO LEADERSHIP ON HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION IN CALIFORNIA
By Heidi Anderson-Swan
My brother was a homeless drug addict with schizophrenia who went to jail eighteen times. He refused treatment. What could we do? It was agonizing for me to imagine him outside, finding shelter under a freeway overpass. To make it worse, he was homeless in Seattle, where it seems to rain practically every day.… Read the rest
Announcing the ANTI-420 DAY YOUTH MARIJUANA PREVENTION CONFERENCE!
Featuring speakers from the National Marijuana Initiative Speakers Bureau!
TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2021
After the suicide death of her 19-year-old son, Johnny, on 11/20/19, Laura Stack founded the 501c3 nonprofit Johnny’s Ambassadors to educate parents and teens about the dangers of today’s high-THC marijuana on adolescent brain development, mental illness, and suicide.… Read the rest
The Fodder of Lies: Marijuana Use and Mood Disorders
By Laura Stack
Despite evidence to the contrary, many marijuana users choose to believe their favorite drug works as a viable medicine for all kinds of ailments, physical and mental. Pro-marijuana web sites love to promote marijuana as an “alternative medicine,” good for whatever ails you, just as their Big Tobacco and snake oil predecessors did with their products.… Read the rest
The Genetic Component of Cannabis-Induced Schizophrenia
By Laura Stack
Modern marijuana is an insidious drug, in part because its proponents and users operate under a set of assumptions that no longer apply. Once upon a time—ironically, during the period when government agencies quashed it most severely—marijuana wasn’t much of a threat to most people.… Read the rest
Marni M. — February 18, 2021
I recently joined your page because I have a nephew, who died by suicide last year. Today he would have been 22 years old. He was very troubled his whole life, but his first drug abuse was high-potency marijuana. His parents supported this use, and he was hospitalized many times.… Read the rest
Tracing the Connection Between Marijuana and Schizophrenia
By Laura Stack
… Read the restSchiz·o·phre·ni·a (skitsəˈfrēnēə,ˌskitsəˈfrenēə): Noun, Psychiatry
A long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.
Bart B. — February 9, 2021
On August 14, 2018, my son, Kevin, died by suicide. He was 29 years old. Kevin suffered from depression and cannabis-induced psychosis, (a diagnosis in the DSM-5).
Kevin told my wife and me about his cannabis use at 15
He agreed to get help.… Read the rest
The Rise of Big Marijuana: Lessons Learned from Big Tobacco, Part II
By Laura Stack
The wave of decriminalization/legalization of marijuana keeps marching across the land in 2021. Businesses providing marijuana and its paraphernalia are proliferating like fire ants. Serious marijuana users remain a relatively small American minority, but they have powerful allies in business.… Read the rest