by Chris Thurstone | Oct 22, 2018 | Research
Increasingly, we are contacted by parents desperate to learn more about the strong association between adolescent marijuana use and psychosis. Their typical and tragic messages go something like this: “We never knew. We thought marijuana wasn’t even...
by Christine Tatum | Jan 19, 2018 | Marijuana, Research
Researchers reporting in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) have found that both adolescent cannabis use and cigarette use are associated with increased risk of psychosis. The association was greater for cannabis, according to their study,...
by Chris Thurstone | Feb 10, 2015 | Marijuana, Public Policy, Research
I am honored to have been asked to serve on an advisory committee of the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment, which has issued a voluminous report detailing the real and possible impacts of cannabis use on health. “Monitoring Health Concerns...
by Christine Tatum | Nov 12, 2013 | Media
A long time ago, Dr. T and I stopped caring about criticism leveled at us — which explains why it’s November, and I’m just now seeing this breathless report by Michael Roberts published June 19 in Westword. That would be the Denver alt-weekly with a...
by Chris Thurstone | Nov 16, 2012 | Marijuana, Research
Meet Bertha K. Madras, Ph.D. She is a professor of psychobiology at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry. Her research in drug addiction is world-recognized, prolific and pioneering. Like me, she has grown tired of watching people pass around this...