The Washington researchers, led by Carlini, concluded that young people were particularly vulnerable to addiction and negative effects from high-potency marijuana and that “there is an urgent need for policy considerations and deliberations to support public health and well-being.” In Washington state, researchers are further along, having completed a six-month review in 2020 led by 11 scientists who concluded that THC has a “dose response.” That means the more THC consumed, the worse the negative effects. The work began after concentrate sales soared, rising from 9 percent of the state's legal cannabis market in 2014 to 35 percent in 2020. He said the studies aren’t uniform in their methods or results and that it will be challenging to characterize the “messy data,” but he said he anticipates creating a public database of research that will be kept up to date.
Jon Samet, the dean of the Colorado School of Public Health, is overseeing the effort. One of the legislation’s components directed the University of Colorado’s medical school to do a comprehensive review of more than 800 scientific articles on the physical and mental health impacts of high-potency THC. The report is due in July. “And I was like, ‘What is wrong with you?’ you know? Because I didn’t smell it, you know? I couldn’t smell it on him. His mother, Janet Corneil, said she began to suspect something was going on with her son because he stopped showing up for sports practice. “My life was falling apart around me,” he told Patterson. Will Brown, 18, also of Colorado, said he started out smoking regular weed and soon moved on to high-potency marijuana and “crazy dabs” that left him lying on his bedroom floor unable to talk. He said he didn’t realize it was a problem until two years into his usage. Her mother, Sydney Block, said that she had her own struggles with addiction and that when she saw her daughter high from marijuana concentrates and slurring her words she was in disbelief, thinking, “There’s no way that this is just weed.” Jasmin Block, 19, of Denver, told NBC News’ Steve Patterson that high-potency cannabis products were so easy to get that she was first offered a “wax pen” between classes in her school bathroom. She said she was unable to grasp “how much was too much” and came away “too high.” She said the high-potency products were a gateway to stronger drugs.
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