Marijuana

Parent Coaching: Helping parents with parenting challenges by offering alternative perspectives about family situations, creating strategies to prevent youth high-risk behavior, and developing family dynamics that achieve balanced parenting goals.

Prevention Planning: Use this section to plan your prevention activities and prevention discussions regarding this topic.

• Cannabis Screening Test

  Assess your cannabis use with this non-judgmental approach to screening cannabis use issues.

• Marijuana IQ Quiz

  How much do you really know about the effects and risks of marijuana? You might be surprised. Let’s test your marijuana IQ.

ACTIVITIES

• Marijuana Expert Webinar Series

  Johnny’s Ambassadors offers a free, weekly expert education for parents on youth substance abuse, mental health, and suicide prevention. 

• Free games

  Help your kids learn about marijuana. 

• Let's Talk: Parent Tool Kit

  A toolkit for navigating teen substance use created for Marin County. Excellent source of information for parents regarding protective factors.

• Host a Discussion About Natural High

  We use powerful social influencers to tell meaningful stories in a way that makes a difference in kids' lives.

LINKS

• Johnny's Ambassadors

  Johnny’s Ambassadors educates parents and teens about the dangers of today’s high-THC marijuana on adolescent brain development, mental illness, and suicide. 

• Cannabis Psychosis Schizophrenia Connection

  Cure SZ Newsletter describing the link between cannabis, psychosis, and schizophrenia.

• Smart Approaches to Marijuana

  Smart Approaches to Marijuana envisions a society where marijuana policies are aligned with the scientific understanding of marijuana’s harms. 

ORGANIZATIONS

• The University of Mississippi Marijuana Research

  UM’s research interests include studies of the botanical, pharmacological and chemical properties of the cannabis plant. 

• One Chance to Grow Up

  As an initiative of Smart Colorado, Once Chance's mission to keep kids safe from all the dangers of marijuana commercialization. 

• Natural High

  Natural High's mission is to inspire and empower youth to find their natural high and develop the skills and courage to live life well.

• International Academy on the Science and Impact of Cannabis

  IASIC counters the pervasive misperception of the safety of marijuana by international experts who provide science, data and clinical expertise. This non-partisan and non-political group is developed, organized, and guided by doctors. We hope science guides policies that protect the public and create informed decision making.

• SAM Smart Approaches to Marijuana

  Smart Approaches to Marijuana's mission is to educate citizens on the science of marijuana and to promote health-first, smart policies and attitudes that decrease marijuana use and its consequences.

READING & RESEARCH

• Weed and Psychosis

  USA Today article about cannabis and its link to psychosis.

• A lifetime of conversations 

  Ways to talk to your kids about drugs.

Student Engagement: Engaging students in the learning process to increase understanding and motivattion to practice higher-level critical thinking skills about high-risk behavior.

Prevention Planning: Use this section to find information, activities, discussion and fact handouts, as well as access to research about this topic.

• Cannabis Screening Test

  Assess your cannabis use with this non-judgmental approach to screening cannabis use issues.

• Marijuana IQ Quiz

  How much do you really know about the effects and risks of marijuana? You might be surprised. Let’s test your marijuana IQ.

ACTIVITIES

• #STOPDABBING WALK

  Sign up a team for the #StopDabbing Walk in September to show your support for protecting youth against marijuana induced-psychosis.

• Hear Stories of Marijuana Victims

  Listen to SAM Education stories about victims of marijuana. 

• Natural High

  Watch videos from celebrity storytellers about how they get high naturally.

LINKS

• About Mental Health

• Lessons Learned from State Legalization

  Learn about the effect of marijuana legalization in the states for this Smart Approaches to Marijuana report.

• Marijuana & Social Justice

  On the surface, legalizing marijuana might sound like a good way to address issues of systemic injustice. People of color are almost 6 times more likely to be arrested for all drugs, including marijuana, than whites.

ORGANIZATIONS

• The University of Mississippi Marijuana Research

  UM’s research interests include studies of the botanical, pharmacological and chemical properties of the cannabis plant. 

• Natural High

  Natural High's mission is to inspire and empower youth to find their natural high and develop the skills and courage to live life well.

• International Academy on the Science and Impact of Cannabis

  IASIC counters the pervasive misperception of the safety of marijuana by international experts who provide science, data and clinical expertise. This non-partisan and non-political group is developed, organized, and guided by doctors. We hope science guides policies that protect the public and create informed decision making.

READING & RESEARCH

• Weed and Psychosis

  USA Today article about the relationship between cannabis and psychosis. 

• Obtain a natural high

  Learn how to make these talks easier.