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With the holidays coming up, one thing at the top of your teen’s Christmas list may be a pen. No, not your average fancy sharpie, not a red or green Pilot G-2 (my personal favorite); no, we are talking about vape pens. More and more common among youth, these pens...

If I had known then what I know now about cannabis, my recovery from brain surgery would have been much different.

Imagine if today’s academics provided our youth only with information from a generation ago, the information that we, as parents and educators, grew up on. Picture teachers giving students an encyclopedia from the late 1980s to use for their research papers instead of...

Four Strategies To Get The Conversation Started You might be wondering why it is important to start talking to your children at an early age about the risks associated with adolescent marijuana use. Most experts agree that education about issues like...

Start Early: In a review of various substance abuse prevention programs, epidemiologist Melissa Stigler of the University of Texas School of Public Health and her colleagues concluded that programs that unfold during many sessions—ideally, over several...

What is 420? Like any urban legend, the genesis of 420 has been routinely discussed and debated. While there are many potential origins for how 420 came to be, the general consensus is that it began with a group of teenage boys living in California in the...

When U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions decided to issue a memorandum on January 4, 2018, rescinding the Cole Memorandum, it was clear that his long-time wish to demonize marijuana and criminalize activities around the legal state markets had come to pass. I am an...

Sorting Through The Misinformation. I am a Colorado educator and the CEO and cofounder of the Marijuana Education Initiative (MEI). For the last three years, I have focused on developing and implementing marijuana-specific youth prevention and intervention curricula....

At first glance, you may assume I am going to be writing about money—marijuana excise tax, to be exact—but I am not. I am going to be writing about actual education, the kind that takes place between teachers and students, youth-serving organizations and participants,...