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Teens and Cannabis Part 2: So, your teen is smoking weed, now what?

Teens and Cannabis Part 2: So, your teen is smoking weed, now what?

Written by Barry Lessin M.Ed., CAADC and Amanda Reiman, MSW PhD

This article is part of a series that I collaborated with Amanda Reiman, founder of Personal Plants and can be found on her Personal Plants website. The goal of this series is to provide useful and actionable information for adults looking to introduce cannabis as a learning topic in a way that educates, doesn’t promote use among young people, and approaches cannabis from a fact based harm reduction perspective vs. the Just Say No messaging of yesteryear. In Pt.2 I offer a stigma-free harm reduction approach to understanding cannabis use that will help parents to reframe substance use and empower them to make more effective interventions with their children.

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