The Dangerous Truth About Today's Marijuana Quotes

“Forge ahead despite your pain and give meaning to your loss.”
― Laura Stack, The Dangerous Truth About Today's Marijuana: Johnny Stack's Life and Death Story

“yes, if you doubt it, it’s true that people can feel suicidal after using marijuana, especially when they are young and use high-potency products with high frequency. I know because it happened to my son in front of my very eyes.”
― Laura Stack, The Dangerous Truth About Today's Marijuana: Johnny Stack's Life and Death Story

“The weight of the current evidence should be regarded as strong enough to elicit widespread public health warnings about the suspected role of marijuana use in precipitating suicidal behaviors, since the mandate of the relevant authorities is to err on the side of protecting public health rather than to establish scientific certainty beyond a shadow of a doubt.”
― Laura Stack, The Dangerous Truth About Today's Marijuana: Johnny Stack's Life and Death Story

“It’s no coincidence that the increases in suicides and toxicology rates with THC in Colorado teens are correlated. As a mother, I want the world to know my son isn’t just a statistic. He mattered. There is a reason Johnny died—and it is marijuana.”
― Laura Stack, The Dangerous Truth About Today's Marijuana: Johnny Stack's Life and Death Story

“Ah, so using marijuana was no longer about feeling good. He had to use marijuana just to keep from feeling bad, a classic sign of substance use disorder.”
― Laura Stack, The Dangerous Truth About Today's Marijuana: Johnny Stack's Life and Death Story

“The summer before his senior year of high school, he took the SAT exam and got a perfect score on the math portion (800/800) and a 1430 overall. Then he took the ACT and scored a 34”
― Laura Stack, The Dangerous Truth About Today's Marijuana: Johnny Stack's Life and Death Story