"Mom, I just want you to know you were right. About the marijuana."

Johnny Stack told his mother this three days before he died by suicide at 19.

Watch Laura's full story in THC INC, free on YouTube link below.

If you're struggling, call or text 988.

Oregon legalized marijuana 12 years ago. Its own health department now finds moderate or strong evidence of more than a dozen harms from cannabis use, including:

- Psychosis, including schizophrenia
- Higher suicide risk
- Heart attack and stroke
- Car crashes
- Severe, recurring vomiting
- Kids poisoned by edibles
- Lower IQ and attention problems in kids exposed before birth

Read what Oregon found: thedrugreport.org/2026/11/06/ore…

In 1980, seized marijuana averaged under 1.5% THC. Today, concentrates on Colorado shelves average about 70%, and some reach the high 90s.

That's not a stronger version of the same drug. It's a different dose, and the harm rises with it.

Here's what today's weed really is: learnaboutsam.org/marijuana-pote…

High-potency hemp THC like Delta-8 is sold at gas stations and smoke shops, often with no age checks, in packaging made to look like candy.

Former DEA chief Asa Hutchinson calls it "above all, a child safety problem."

He's right. The federal ban takes effect Dec. 11.

@AsaHutchinson

thedrugreport.org/2026/11/05/fed…

FRIDAY FACT: Women with cannabis use disorder during pregnancy had a 40% higher risk of ending up in the ER for a psychiatric crisis in the year after giving birth.

That's from a study of more than 2 million California births in the Annals of Epidemiology.
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Five students taken to the hospital by ambulance after THC gummies went around their school.

Since legalization spread, the number of kids treated after eating THC gummies has shot up more than 1,300%.

Watch THC INC free: youtu.be/uyD02y6D9e0

Bayer sold heroin as a nonaddictive alternative to morphine. Purdue said OxyContin was less addictive.

Now the kratom industry says kratom isn't an opioid at all.

A poison center director and a leading opioid researcher took that claim apart in the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. Kratom hits the same brain receptor as morphine, and the body turns it into 7-OH, a far more potent opioid.

thedrugreport.org/2026/10/20/kra…

If your teen ends up in the ER for drugs or alcohol, the odds are it involved marijuana.

A new study in the American Journal of Psychiatry of more than 1.3 million emergency patients found that 84% of 16- to 18-year-olds with a substance-related visit had at least one involving marijuana. That's higher than any other age group.

eurekalert.org/news-releases/…

British American Tobacco is putting up about C$187.5 million so Organigram can buy Aurora Cannabis. Once the deal closes, the tobacco giant will hold about 42% of the combined pot company and can name up to 30% of its board.

We've said it for years: this is Big Tobacco 2.0. Now it's on paper.

businesswire.com/news/home/2026…

When California's legalization measure failed in 2010, the Drug Policy Alliance called it "an extraordinary victory for the broader movement."

When Nevada said no twice, the Marijuana Policy Project promised it would be back.

It was. So are we.

thedrugreport.org/2026/11/04/mar…

Question 8 outperformed the Republican candidate for governor in some of Massachusetts' most Democratic cities.

In Randolph, 30.5% voted YES and only 19.4% voted for the GOP nominee.
In Chelsea, it was 28.1% YES and 19.3% GOP.
In Everett, it was 30.2% YES and 25.8% GOP.
Boston, nt the same way.

This was never a red vs. blue fight. Working families in diverse cities know what commercial pot shops do to a neighborhood, and they voted that way.

The industry wants you to believe only conservatives question legalization. The results say otherwise.

Congratulations to the leaders who won last night and will keep fighting to protect kids from high-potency THC and dangerous kratom products. 🧵

Congratulations to Gov. Kelly Ayotte on winning a second term. New Hampshire is the last state in New England without commercial marijuana sales, and Gov. Ayotte's leadership is a big reason why. Granite State families are better protected because of it.
@GovKellyAyotte @KellyAyotte

Congratulations to Rep. Andy Harris on his reelection in Maryland. A physician and appropriator, Dr. Harris led the push in Congress to close the hemp THC loophole that flooded stores with intoxicating products that appeal to kids. We're proud to stand with him.
@RepAndyHarrisMD

Legalization lost at the ballot box for decades before it ever won. Yesterday's Question 8 results in Massachusetts start that same story for our side.

@KevinSabet on why this is only the beginning:

Official statement:
learnaboutsam.org/ma-broken-prom…

Massachusetts Question 8 results: the first statewide vote ever on ending commercial marijuana sales came up short last night.

But more than half a million voters said enough. Many of them are families living with the addiction, psychosis and heartbreak this industry sells. That Full statement from @KevinSabet: learnaboutsam.org/2026/11/sam-ac…

What Massachusetts was promised when it legalized marijuana, and what it got instead:
learnaboutsam.org/ma-broken-prom…