News & Views
Base DUID laws on responsible research
Since mid-December 2012, Ed Wood has sent weekly e-mails to the Colorado legislature. Each one-page message focuses on a single issue related to drugged driving. Mr. Wood is an expert on the subject and ardently champions more sensible drugged-driving laws and...
State-run? Do the research.
When the joint select committee of the Colorado House and Senate met for the first time March 15 to devise ways to implement an amendment legalizing recreational marijuana use in this state, it decided to remove from further consideration the idea of a state-run...
‘How deep must we sink?’
Ed Wood is an expert on issues related to drugged driving -- which is chief among the reasons Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper appointed him to serve on a task force charged with recommending regulations of marijuana to the state's legislature. How and why Mr. Wood...
Colorado supports THC limits with no limits
Yesterday, I raised questions about the urgent need for enforcement of federal law and a very strong regulatory framework for the legalization of recreational marijuana. If it must exist, this framework also must protect public health and safety and put the interests...
Colorado, put public health and safety first
Because Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper appointed me to serve on a task force charged with recommending to the state legislature how to implement a constitutional amendment making recreational marijuana use legal in this state, I have become more aware of potential...
Denver teens face greater pressure to use
There's always one slide in the presentations I give about marijuana's effects on the teen brain that makes my young audiences scoff -- and a talk I gave earlier this week at Denver's East High School was no exception. The slide illustrates what science has confirmed...
Heart rate variability biofeedback in adolescent substance treatment
The results of this research were published in Global Advances in Health and Medicine in January 2013. Study title: Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback in Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Authors: Chris Thurstone, MDcorresponding author and Travis Lajoie, DO...
BraveTracks helping Colorado kids
A burgeoning nonprofit organization is helping Colorado high school students find a world of professional and personal opportunities. I like the group's aim so much that I recently agreed to join its board of advisors. The organization is called BraveTracks -- and its...
Meet Project SAM
Having sat through two meetings of the Colorado task force I have been appointed to by Gov. John Hickenlooper to recommend a regulatory framework for recreational marijuana use in this state, it is clearer to me than ever that our nation needs to have far more...
Talking with your child about tragedy
Today's massacre at an elementary school in Connecticut is devastating. At this time, 27 people, including 20 children, are reported dead. A common question at times like these is, "How should I discuss this with my children?" There is no script -- but there are...
Read the book
Clearing the Haze is a guide designed to help parents determine whether their child may have a substance problem and, if so, how to begin to address it. This book includes the voices and insight of experts in substance abuse counseling, young people in recovery, and parents who have lived the nightmare of adolescent addiction.