Fresh bad news for kids makes pot legalization look even worse - eviltoast

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/73674

A growing body of evidence linking pot use during adolescence to both mental illness and changes in the reward circuitry of the brain that likely contribute to later addictions to other drugs, and the stage is set for yet another youth mental-health crisis on top of a wave of depression, anxiety and attempted self-harm thanks to disastrous school-closure policies during the pandemic.