Marin4PublicHealth

@50RandomActs @GetItRightonMJ We have sent a letter to the CA Senate OPPOSING #SB58 to protect our young adults. #CALeg

1/@NPR’s @RhituC spotlights @kpdor’s (@PHIdotorg co-authored) landmark @JAMAHealthForum study on adolescent #cannabis use & correlated increases in #MentalHealth risks. Study followed over 460K teens for up to a decade (1 of such analyses ever). Read: bit.ly/4s2GbZc

2/Our Dr. Silver explains how early #cannabis use appears to raise risk of serious psychiatric disorders—incl. #bipolardisorder & #psychosis—& increases #depression & #anxiety. Adolescent brain also still developing & legalization has fueled misleading perception pot is harmless.

2/@KPDOR’s Kelly Young-Wolff: “This study adds to…growing body of evidence that #cannabis use during adolescence could have potentially detrimental, long-term health effects…It’s imperative that parents & children have accurate, trusted, evidence-based information abt risks.”

1/New study in @JAMAHealthForum, led by @KPDOR & co-authored by researchers at @phidotorg, @UCSF, & @USC finds past-year #cannabis use during adolescence is associated with a significantly higher risk of incident psychotic (2Xs), bipolar (2Xs), depressive & anxiety disorders.

I’m profoundly humbled to share that I’ve been named to TIME100 Health, recognizing the 100 most influential people shaping global health in 2026. @TIME When we started Mobilize Recovery, our goal was clear. We set out to give a voice to those who have been left behind by a system that ignored them, to end the overdose crisis, and to take on the billionaires who profited off our pain. This recognition by TIME isn’t just a personal milestone. It’s a massive spotlight on our entire movement and the advocates doing the hard work on the ground every single day. To be included alongside such an extraordinary group of global health leaders is surreal, but this recognition truly belongs to all of us. Thank you to TIME, my incredible team, and everyone who has supported this mission. We won’t stop until every voice is heard, every person is valued and supported, and no more lives are lost to this preventable crisis. Let's keep fighting. With love, R. Read the 2026 list here: time.com/time100-health…

Congratulations to @RyanForRecovery — well deserved for all the work you’ve done to advance recovery in the US!

2/Big questions remain—esp. about fed. action & industry power. But change starts locally. Our #cannabis scorecards (thank you @ElevateYouthCA & @TheCenterSHF!), show where states & communities fall short—& how to better protect #publichealth. Scorecard: bit.ly/3MfmYV8

1/@NYTimes Ed Board just acknowledged a hard truth: #cannabis legalization w/o strong regulation has fueled sharp rises in frequent use, addiction, ER visits, psychosis & impaired driving. Legalize & regulate was the promise (and remains unfulfilled). bit.ly/4chAWQK

Where’s the outrage now, MAGA?

On his first day in office, Donald Trump shut down a federal database that tracked ICE and CBP misconduct. Then, after eliminating the only system tracking these abuses, he unleashed federal agents with unprecedented aggression. This wasn't an accident. It was a deliberate choice to operate without accountability and erode public trust. Congress has a constitutional duty to provide oversight. We need transparency, we need accountability, and we need that database restored NOW. notus.org/trump-white-ho…

.@realDonaldTrump was president at the time, by the way.

Tell Your Children: the @nytimes just admitted it was wrong to call for the full legalization of cannabis and called for making THC extracts illegal (!!) I warned you seven years ago. Now the reality is impossible to ignore.

Ring paid somewhere between $8 and $10 million for a 30-second Super Bowl spot to tell 120 million viewers that their cameras now scan neighborhoods using AI. The math is wild. Ring has roughly 20 million devices in American homes. Search Party is enabled by default. The opt-out rate on default settings in consumer tech is historically around 5%. So approximately 19 million cameras are now running AI pattern matching on anything that moves past your front door. Today the target is dogs. The same infrastructure already handles “Familiar Faces,” which builds biometric profiles of every person your camera sees, whether they know about it or not. Ring settled with the FTC for $5.8 million after employees had unrestricted access to customers’ bedroom and bathroom footage for years. They’re now partnered with Flock Safety, which routes footage to local law enforcement. ICE has accessed Flock data through local police departments acting as intermediaries. Senator Markey’s investigation found Ring’s privacy protections only apply to device owners. If you’re a neighbor, a delivery driver, a passerby, you have no rights and no recourse. This tells you everything about Amazon’s actual product. The customer paid for the camera. The customer pays the electricity. The customer pays the $3.99/month subscription. And Amazon gets a surveillance grid that would cost tens of billions to build from scratch, with an AI layer activated by default, and a law enforcement pipeline already connected. They wrapped all of that in a lost puppy commercial because that’s the only version of this story anyone would willingly opt into.

The media continues to falsely claiming that marijuana is safer than alcohol. Here are a few facts. 1. A shot glass of potent alcohol can not make you psychotic like a hit of potent THC can. 2. Marijuana related deaths are not tracked effectively. 3. When marijuana intoxication wears off, a person can still be psychotic. This @nytimes article is a step in the right direction; however, it continues to fail on key facts. 1. Marijuana is a significant factor in mass violence, including school shootings 2. We lack the education and the infrastructure to handle these marijuana harms. 3. The ignore the fact that the black market for marijuana is increasing. everybrainmatters.org/2026/01/19/how…

We tried warning people more than a decade ago, and we will keep screaming til everyone listens.

State sponsored Drug use-Narcan cycle is unethical. Make the people overdosing go to rehab. No other choice. Persons with addiction do not have full decision-making capacity. It's time for the state to step in and get drug users into rehab. Beneficence>autonomy.

The @nytimes Editorial Board is now sounding the alarm on what we predicted years ago @LukeNiforatos @IASIC3 @GoodDrugPolicy @EveryBrainMatt @CoDoc442 @learnaboutsam @madras_bertha @moms_strong It’s Time for America to Admit That It Has a Marijuana Problem nytimes.com/2026/02/09/opi…

Since fentanyl death rates are higher in pot states, which one is really a “weapon of mass destruction”?

📢 New Heart Study Alert: Research published in Heart shows that young adults who use cannabis and are hospitalized for acute coronary syndrome (a serious heart event) have higher rates of major long-term heart problems compared with non-users. This adds to growing evidence linking cannabis use with increased cardiovascular risk, including heart attacks, stroke, and complications later in life—especially among younger adults. Experts say these findings highlight the need for awareness and careful discussion with healthcare providers about cannabis use and heart health. #HeartHealth #CannabisRisks #Cardiovascular #PublicHealth #ResearchUpdate 🔗heart.bmj.com/content/early/…