The Latest on Kids and Drugs
For the last forty-eight years, researchers at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan have been monitoring drug trends among teenagers, and reporting their findings annually in the Monitoring the Future Survey. The most recent survey indicates…
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Cannabis Use and the Brain
With the use of cannabis on the rise and increasingly accepted in our culture, it’s important that we reckon with the fact that its use does have an effect on one’s cognitive and psychological processing. A variety of recent studies…
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Social Media and Cannabis Use
I recently ran across a social media meme that pictures some cannabis, along with this message: negative effects of smoking weed include, less weed. It’s one of many weed-friendly social media posts that researchers say are influencing teenagers and their…
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What Looks Good May Be Bad
I was only six or seven years old when I spotted a wrapped chocolate bar sitting on the kitchen counter. It was holiday time and my mom was getting ready to bake something but had left the room. The temptation…
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The Latest on Kids and Drugs
For the last forty-eight years, researchers at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan have been monitoring drug trends among teenagers, and reporting their findings annually in the Monitoring the Future Survey. The most recent survey indicates…
Read More
Cannabis Use and the Brain
With the use of cannabis on the rise and increasingly accepted in our culture, it’s important that we reckon with the fact that its use does have an effect on one’s cognitive and psychological processing. A variety of recent studies…
Read More