I recommend you begin marijuana education no later than age ten, and significantly younger if possible. Middle school is often the age of initiation into marijuana use. When I spoke at one high school recently, one student asked me, “But why aren’t you at the middle school instead of here?… Read the rest
Do You Know the Significance of 420 Day and 710 Day?
Both 420 Day and 710 Day are unofficial holidays among the cannabis-using community. 420 Day is Weed Day, and it takes place on April 20, which celebrates everything related to cannabis and cannabis use. 710 Day is Dab Day on July 10, and it encourages dabbing concentrates such as wax, shatter, and budder.… Read the rest
Johnny’s 3rd Angelversary and #GivingTuesday
Three years ago, on November 20, 2019, my beloved 19-year-old son, Johnny died by suicide after becoming psychotic from dabbing high-potency marijuana wax. We miss him so much.
Every day, I wake up and put on my figurative grief backpack. It used to be very heavy, and it’s gotten easier to bear over the years, but I always wear it.… Read the rest
Frank F — November 18, 2022
The so called weed of yesterday is just as bad. I wasted my 20s smoking the stuff before I gradually phased it out of my life in my 30s as I realized I didn’t really enjoy the way the stuff made me feel.… Read the rest
Frank F — November 14, 2022
I just listened to the Michael Savage episode that you were on recently. Your story made me cry and your bravery makes me proud. I’m a 70 year old man who smoked marijuana for a year from early 1975 to early 1976. … Read the rest
How Does Marijuana Affect the Development of the Human Brain?
Over the past few decades, we’ve learned that some parts of the human brain continue to develop until at least the age of 25 in women and 28 in men. Heavy exposure to marijuana before this age can negatively impact brain development, resulting in damage affecting many bodily and mental functions.… Read the rest
Winnie S — October 19, 2022
My son was diagnosed with schizophrenia just over a year ago and not long after survived a suicide attempt directly after vaping marijuana concentrate. He spent nearly two weeks in the hospital and underwent multiple surgeries (with more to come). While I understand it is a complex illness with multiple risk factors, I strongly believe my son’s schizophrenia- and very clearly his suicide attempt- were caused by marijuana.… Read the rest
Anonymous – October 17, 2022
My son is home just today from his first two months of freshman year of college. Super heavy THC vaping many times a day for a long time, maybe four years. He has terrifying anxiety in the afternoon hours, nausea, problems eating and swallowing if not high, talks about a darkness and depression that is like being in a trap, a dark room with no door and no hope of any light.… Read the rest
Anonymous — October 12, 2022
My son in now a paranoid schizophrenic due to dabbing/using wax and marijuana since in high school. He is now 30, just diagnosed in May 2022 after a breakdown in full psychosis. He is now on psychotic meds, meds for night terrors, and multiple anxiety meds.… Read the rest
At What Age Does the Brain’s Frontal Lobe Fully Develop?
One trade-off we humans suffer for our intelligence is brains that aren’t as well-developed as they could be when we’re born. Otherwise, our heads would be too big for the birth canal. Therefore, unlike most large mammals, many of which can walk and seek food within days or hours of birth, human infants are helpless.… Read the rest