As Marijuana Moves Towards Greater Acceptance, What is the Impact on Teens?
Inside The Mind of Teens and Tweens
English - January 29, 2014 21:07 - 9 minutes - 20 Bytes - ★★★★ - 46 ratingsCourses Education education parenting teaching teens teenagers tweens adolescents students highschool neuroscience Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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We're seeing definitive moves toward the legalization of marijuana for recreational use. As the use of pot becomes normalized, what will be the impact on teens and what should parents say to their teens about its use.
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Yasmin Hurd is the Director MD/PhD Program, Professor in Psychiatry, Neuroscience and Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics at the Friedman Brain Institute at the Icahn School of medicine. Dr. Matthew Smith has a Ph.D. in Social Work with Post-Doctoral Training in Psychiatric Epidemiology and Translational Neuroscience. His research interests cover the influence of alcohol and illicit substances on brain anatomy.