12 Days of Advocacy – Day 3

Contact Your Local School Principal and Suggest they Bring in Johnny’s Ambassadors for a School Assembly

12 Days of Advocacy: A dozen ways for you to advocate for Johnny’s Ambassadors and prevent youth THC use in your community!
Scan the hidden QR code to open today’s Gift of Advocacy.Read the rest

Addicted, Misdiagnosed, and Redeemed

Not my Story – Until it Was
From Relapse to Redemption Breaking the Cycle!

My story begins in February 2018, just a couple of months before my 18th birthday. Up until then, I had what many would consider a picture-perfect life—loving, supportive parents, great friends, good grades, and over a decade of involvement in youth sports.… Read the rest

Annual Fundraiser update!

We are just $7000 shy of our $10,000 goal for our annual fundraiser open through the end of September to honor National Suicide Prevention Month. Can you help? CONGRATULATIONS to our top three Pet Parade winners, who raised the most money for Johnny’s Ambassadors!… Read the rest

Cannabis disrupts brain activity in young adults prone to psychosis

It’s well established that cannabis use can trigger psychosis in young people susceptible to schizophrenia. Until January 2025,however, the origins of this trigger mechanism remained a mystery. With the publication of a new study by members of Canada’s McGill University Department of Psychiatry in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, this mechanism has become clearer — suggesting, among other things, new avenues for the development of medications to treat those with cannabis psychosis and related disorders.… Read the rest