U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams and HHS Secretary Alex Azar, both Trump-appointed officials with drug company ties, issued a national warning Thursday about marijuana legalization and increasing potency.
United States Surgeon General Jerome Adams and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, both Trump-appointed officials with pharmaceutical company ties, issued a national warning Thursday about marijuana legalization and increasing potency.
"This ain't your mother's marijuana," Adams said, highlighting research showing the strength of weed and the concentration of its active ingredient, THC, has increased three-fold in recent decades. "Marijuana's increasingly widespread availability in multiple and highly potent forms, coupled with a false and dangerous perception of safety among youth, merits a nationwide call to action," reads the Surgeon General's"Marijuana Use & the Developing Brain" advisory."The legalization movement may be impacting youth perception of harm from marijuana.
Adams and Azar warned young people and parents about psychosis, paranoia, anxiety and other harmful effects they tied to marijuana usage.
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