In an effort to educate the community on “The Dangers of Today’s Cannabis,” the City of Mission Viejo is hosting an important drug prevention workshop on May 14.
Open to all ages the program begins at 5 pm (with check-in and resources at 4:30 pm) in the City Council Chamber at 200 Civic Center.
Led by Joe Eberstein of the Cannabis Public Health Initiative, the program will focus on the hype and reality of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC); how the teen brain is impacted; how to keep kids and elderly parents safe; and more.
Join the CPHI, San Diego County Office of Education, MADD, TREDS at UC San Diego for a teen safe driving event on March 13th. This is a virtual training focused on teens before Prom and Grad season.
The report describes in detail the different regulatory frameworks that exist in different states, and it draws on prior research to identify policies that are likeliest to have the greatest impact protecting public health. Those include approaches like restrictions on retail sales,pricing, and marketing; putting limits or caps on THC content in products; and laws about cannabis-impaired driving. They also could include different forms of taxation and even state monopolies. While state monopolies have not yet been tried with cannabis, they have proven effective at reducing the public health impacts of alcohol.
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The Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) Network works to improve implementation and delivery of effective substance use prevention interventions and provide training and technical assistance services to the substance misuse prevention field.
It does this by developing and disseminating tools and strategies needed to improve the quality of substance misuse prevention efforts; providing intensive technical assistance and learning resources to prevention professionals in order to improve their understanding of prevention science, epidemiological data, and implementation of evidence-based and promising practices; and, developing tools and resources to engage the next generation of prevention professionals.
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Cannabis use is more likely when individuals are less informed about its health risks, have perceived positive effects of cannabis, or simply assume it is "natural" and, therefore, benign. This belief has become further entrenched as a result of cannabis’ widespread availability for recreational use, social acceptance, and legalization.