** Learn the facts about the destructive and addictive nature of Marijuana and Cannabis
** We are at war with multi-billion-dollar actors manufacturing and selling these addictive substances, and the casualties of this war are our children.
Drawing on my extensive research over the last six years, writing and delivering over 3000 lectures on these subjects, I believe that the primary issue for Klal Yisrael to understand is that today’s use of Marijuana of any kind, is neither healthy nor safe.
Marijuana is becoming an increasingly significant health problem for Jewish children and adults. In the last year alone, I have personal knowledge of Marijuana being consumed at Jewish summer camps, Jewish adolescent overdoses from Marijuana edibles, and Marijuana candies being given out to young guests at a Jewish weddings.
Marijuana “legality” gives the false imprimatur of health and safety to uninformed and unaware Jewish consumers.
The young brain is especially vulnerable to drugs as pleasure centers governing motivation and reward mature far more quickly than the prefrontal cortex, which regulates behavioral inhibition and logical thought.
As a result of the high potency and addictive nature of THC, a recent study described that the critical “indicators of economic well-being” in young adulthood, such as educational attainment, occupational prestige, and income, were significantly lower in individuals that were regular users of Marijuana.
Marijuana poses potentially permanent physiologic and psychological roadblocks to the growth, success and financial stability of our children.