{"id":2079,"date":"2019-05-06T15:47:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T05:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/there-s-nothing-funny-about-today-s-highly-potent-marijuana-it-killed-my-son-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:00:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:00:34","slug":"there-s-nothing-funny-about-today-s-highly-potent-marijuana-it-killed-my-son-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/there-s-nothing-funny-about-today-s-highly-potent-marijuana-it-killed-my-son-2\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s nothing funny about today’s highly potent marijuana. It killed my son."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI want to die,\u201d he wrote before hanging himself at the age of 31. \u201cMy soul is already dead. Marijuana killed my soul + ruined my brain.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Andy wanted to quit. He couldn’t<\/p>\n

A new study shows he’s not alone<\/p>\n

The peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet last month published a major study that found people who use high-potency marijuana daily are five times more likely<\/a> to develop psychosis than those who never partake. The researchers compared data for more than 2,100 people in multiple countries.<\/p>\n

Read more commentary:<\/p>\n

Marijuana needs warning labels like tobacco for associated mental, physical health risks<\/a><\/p>\n

Mental illness in the family raises marijuana risks. Parents, please talk to your teens.<\/a><\/p>\n

Sally Schindel lives in Prescott. She is co-founder of MomsStrong.org<\/a> and a member of the Marijuana Victims Alliance. <\/em>For complete story go to  USA Today April 28th<\/sup> 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI want to die,\u201d he wrote before hanging himself at the age of 31. \u201cMy soul is already dead. Marijuana killed my soul + ruined my brain.\u201d Andy wanted to quit. He couldn’t A new study shows he’s not alone The peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet last month published a major study that found people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-as-medicine","tag-cannabis-as-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}