Today's marijuana isn't the kind your grandmother smoked

Abstract

Johnny Stack, como nos lo relata Isabella Backman, se inició en la marihuana en una fiesta de la escuela a sus 14 años, cuando apenas se había legalizado su uso medicinal en Colorado. Esa marihuana la había obtenido el hermano mayor de unos de sus amigos, quien tenía una tarjeta para marihuana medicinal. A los 19 años, después de 5 años de estar luchando contra adicción y psicosis, Johnny muere por suicidio. Tres días antes, nos dice Backman, le dijo a su madre que la marihuana le había arruinado su mente y su vida. Nunca se probó, a pesar de múltiples pruebas de laboratorio, que usara ninguna otra droga.

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Abstract

Johnny Stack, as Isabella Backman tells us, was introduced to marijuana at a school party when he was 14 years old, when its medical use had just been legalized in Colorado. That marijuana had been obtained by the older brother of one of her friends, who had a medical marijuana card. At 19, after five years of struggling with addiction and psychosis, Johnny died by suicide. Three days earlier, Backman tells us, he told his mother that marijuana had ruined his mind and his life. It was never proven, despite multiple lab tests, that he used any other drug.