Saving Our Youth from the Harms of THC
Guest post by Dr Bobby Smyth MRCPsych PhD
Cannabis is the primary driver of demand for addiction treatment among teenagers and young adults across UK, Ireland and Europe. Dr Bobby Smyth writes about why cannabis and its harms should be a top priority for all working in the field of addiction, why terminology matters and why the term “medical cannabis” is a misnomer.… Read the rest
On June 8, 2021, the Colorado legislature passed Colorado House Bill 1317 in an overwhelming bi-partisan passage to protect youth from the harms of marijuana and regulate marijuana concentrates. Gov. Jared Polis officially signed the bill on June 24, 2021 with Johnny’s Ambassadors founder Laura Stack present.… Read the rest
By Laura Stack
Today, June 8, 2021, marks the dawn of a new epoch in protecting youth from the harms of marijuana, signaled by the overwhelming bi-partisan passage of Colorado House Bill 1317 to regulate marijuana concentrates (http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1317). More than seven years after the passage of legal recreational marijuana, the Colorado legislature recognized how high-potency marijuana can harm young people and put several important regulatory measures into place.… Read the rest
Guest post by Kevin Sabet
This week, House Democrats on Capitol Hill will re-introduce the Marijuana Opportunity and Reinvestment and Expungement Act, otherwise known as the MORE Act. For those who are following along, this bill was passed out of the House last year during the December “lame duck” session following the November election.… Read the rest
May 18, 2021 testimony, by John & Laura Stack, 0n behalf of our son, Johnny, who issued his warning to us three days before he died by suicide, “Marijuana has ruined my mind and my life. I’m sorry, and I love you.”… Read the rest
By Laura Stack
One of the least publicized but arguably most damaging cannabis-induced physical disorders, as defined by the Diagnostics and Statistics Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (a.k.a. DSM-5), is pregnancy complications. Unfortunately, many expectant mothers are either deliberately misled or simply ignorant about how marijuana can harm their developing babies.… Read the rest
By Laura Stack
With thanks to Ed Wood for his input on this article
Driving while high on marijuana is a serious problem among American youths; legalization of marijuana makes it worse and more difficult to police. Curiously, there’s no gender gap involved, as there often is with other aspects of drug use; as of 2017, about the same number of boys and girls comprise the roughly 13% of teens who admitted to driving stoned in the past month.… Read the rest
By Laura Stack
Once upon a time, Big Tobacco used all kinds of misdirection, outright lies, and ads targeting young people to hook its target audience. Tobacco executives claimed tobacco wasn’t addictive well until the mid-1990s, and for a while even pretended it was good for you.… Read the rest
By Laura Stack
Pro-marijuana advocates often claim the nation of Iceland has the highest per-capita use of marijuana in the world, based on an old UN report—so much so that the authorities turn a blind eye to it. After all, what else is there to do but get stoned on an icy island with a total population (330,000) lower than some American cities?… Read the rest
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