Weed is NOT "Just Weed" Anymore. THC Levels Used to be 4%, now 96%. Addiction, Suicide, Psychosis, Murder, ER Visits & Destroying Young People's Lives and Families

Close to my heart: We didn’t know weed was not weed from the 90s anymore - until my daughter and her friends almost destroyed their lives. Dr Phil is trying to sound the alarm - young people are dying

Is it Still “Just Weed”?

Dr. Phil is sounding the alarm that I haven’t heard from any other media source. Addiction, psychosis, suicide, trips to ER for cannabis syndrome (poisoning); the younger the person, adolescent and early 20s, the more harmful to the brain toxic substances appear to be. A developing brain and drugs do not go well together.

THC content in weed was about 4% in the 1990s and now can be up to 96%. The outcome for teens and young adults are worse and becoming common such as trips to the ER from cannabis syndrome, psychotic episodes, suicide and suicide attempts, and even homicide during psychotic episodes from smoking weed.

My Daughter and Her Friends

We found out my daughter and her friends were smoking weed their senior year of highschool and their first year of college. I warned them all that I know that they’re hearing on Tiktok and everywhere else how helpful weed is for anxiety, calming nerves, and relaxing but what they are not hearing is that (even at 4% THC - I didn’t know it was at 96% at the time of my teen lecture) weed causes depression, higher anxiety and worsening anxiety symptoms, paranoia, and even schizophrenia for some people. People’s bodies and brains are not the same and not everyone has a good detox system and people’s brains and bodies respond differently - especially after continued use. It also causes some people to just be lazy and never go after their dreams. These are all things already known in the literature and in the mental health world - and that was at 4% THC.

Did the teens listen and thank me for my insight and wisdom? Ha!! No. But it didn’t fall on deaf ears either. This is the point in speaking truth into teens anyway even when it seems like they don’t care, aren’t listening, and do not hear. They do hear. What we say soaks into their brains and they will access that information when needed.

When it all started going badly for my daughter’s group of friends and for her, the first thing she said to me is “I’m going to stop smoking weed”. She knew. They all knew to attribute their problems to weed - but only because someone said it. This information is not getting out there as much as it needs to be and I’m so glad Dr. Phil is blowing the whistle on the new weed.

My daughter’s friend attempted suicide by taking pills. My daughter attempted suicide 2 weeks later by taking pills. My daughter’s other friend ended up in the ER twice from cannabis syndrome or poisoning. My daughter’s boyfriend was depressed and addicted. They all knew it was time to stop or slow down but the addiction part made it hard until the consequences were too much.

My daughter has plenty of emotional resources and people who love her and care about her - but the weed messed up her brain and made her think she was worthless and alone. Not anything she struggled with before. She began acting strange, combative, irrational, extremely high levels of anxiety and started isolating herself. All symptoms that can be hard to tell the difference between a teen and a teen-in-trouble. Plus she was at college. I could tell something was wrong and I told my husband something was wrong but I couldn’t get any information from her. A few days later, my heart was shattered.

I received a really lengthy text from her that said she had tried to take her life and was not okay and was ready to get help and she was going to stop weed because she thought that might have something to do with it. It did. After some therapy and 3 months off of weed, she was back to her normal thinking and behaving. She was her usual happy and confident self. Her brain was healing. She couldn’t believe what happened to her thinking - what happened to her brain. She made some jokes because it seemed so ridiculous to her that she could have thought like that and attempted suicide. Hard to grasp for anyone who hasn’t had the experience of having their brain poisoned.

I still prayed a lot and checked in with her a lot over the next year because I know about addiction and wasn’t sure if she was addicted or could stay away. But she did stay away. And her brain healed. Her friends’ brains healed too. And they are all doing well now. What a scary thing. My daughter and her friends are lucky to still be here.

Thank God she and her friend didn’t use a more lethal method. The parents in the video above are talking about their son’s journey with this new weed and many things they say sound exactly like what happened to my daughter’s brain, but their son started at 15 - an even more vulnerable brain age - and now their son is gone. He chose a more lethal method -a gun.

Weed is not weed anymore. It’s just as dangerous to teens and young adults as any other drug. The younger they start using it, the more vulnerable their brains are and the more likely for bad outcomes.

When my daughter and her friend’s lives started falling apart - I tried to find out if the weed they were smoking was laced with something. I knew it couldn’t be fentanyl or they would be dead. But that’s how different the new weed is to young brains. It seems like it must be laced with some harder drug - but weed is just a harder drug now.

For more information and reading click the links below:

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From the National Institute of Health: Cannabis use may be associated with suicidality in young adult: NIH study suggests a link between cannabis use and higher levels of suicidal ideation, plan, and attempt.

From Columbia University: Recreational Cannabis Use By Teens Linked to Risk of Depression, Suicidality

From psychiatry online: Evidence Mounting That Connects Cannabis to Youth Depression and Suicide

From the Journal of Psychiatric Research: Cannabis smoking increases the risk of suicide ideation and suicide attempt in young individuals of 11-21 years: A systematic review and meta-analysis

From JAMA netowork: Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome

Dr. Phil’s interview with a young lady who murdered her friend while in a state of cannabis-induced psychosis: