Category: Share your THC story

THC CHANGED MY SON INTO SOMEONE I NO LONGER RECOGNIZED

My name is Pamela. I am the divorced mother of a  21-year-old son.

Before THC, my life was hard. I was my son’s sole physical and emotional support with little financial support from anyone else.… Read the rest

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

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

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

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

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

Hi, my name is Melissa Altom. I’m a family physician in Aurora, MO and I have 2 teenage sons. About 2 years ago, I read Johnny’s story, which moved me deeply, and began receiving your emails.  I told my sons about Johnny and had them read his story and watch Johnny’s tribute video.… Read the rest

Our son Nathaniel was 26 when he shot himself in our home while we were there on August 13th 2022. We had no idea he was suicidal. It was only within that week he started not acting like himself. Tons of packages of survival stuff started arriving and he only went to work one day.… Read the rest

Hi Laura.
My name is Kevin O’Bannon and I ran across your story on The Addiction Podcast – Point of No Return.  I was searching for something to set my mind at ease.  Let me tell you my story, if that’s okay. … Read the rest

My adult son, 23 began using THC/Delta 8 when it became legal here in North Carolina in 2018, his sophomore year of college. He dropped out of college in the middle of his Jr Year to focus on a New App he and a friend was building and also focus on his paintings, he’s an artist.… Read the rest