"This did cause psychosis for him... And it really unraveled his life..." Heather Bacchus joined Liz Collin on her podcast. Bacchus lost her son, Randy Michael, to cannabis-induced psychosis and suicide at the age of 21. Full interview: https://youtu.be/T5-Rs7A8N3c
"You know, and this market explosion cannot be ignored. The cannabis industry has has been booming drinks, gummies, oils, topicals, practically anything else you can think of. But what can you tell us about your ongoing efforts to help people understand these products and increase awareness of their dangers? So we work to educate kids and we like to talk to parents. Parents are a little harder to get into the room because they're so busy. But we go to schools and we try to educate kids and share some story with the hopes that they'll take what he has to share and the reality that really this did cause psychosis for him. It increases anxiety and depression, and it really unraveled his life. And we want people to see that this is a reality that can happen and that their brains are not done developing until they're 25. And that if they use marijuana, they can disrupt that brain development process. And so our goal is to do that. And we are also working with smart approaches to marijuana, advising, trying to educate our lawmakers on the dangers of this product and doing our efforts there. Again, it was brought forth this year in the session. We wanted to put warning labels in place and we wanted to put potency limits in. And unfortunately, the warning labels, they passed through the Senate. They also passed that you can put any cannabis business within 500 feet of a hospital and those passed through the Senate. But then they fell off during the committee hearings. And so they weren't even really open at all, really, to putting any potency caps in. And this is really what we need to do in order to protect our public health."
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"This did cause psychosis for him... And it really unraveled his life..." Heather Bacchus joined Liz Collin on her podcast. Bacchus lost her son, Randy Michael, to cannabis-induced psychosis and suicide at the age of 21. Full interview: https://youtu.be/T5-Rs7A8N3c