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Marijuana Education Initiative: New Approaches to Youth Education and Prevention
Presented by: Sarah Grippa, Co-Founder and CEO of the Marijuana Education Initiativewww.marijuana-education.com
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Presentation Overview
•Introduction •Changing Times = Changing Conversations •Why Public Campaigns Alone Are Not Enough•Filling the Gap Between Public Campaigns and Public Education•Addressing Medicinal Marijuana •The Positive Impacts of Collaboration•Key Takeaways
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Meeting Youth Where They Are At
Youth today have come of age in a world of legalized marijuana.
When it comes to marijuana, their reality is drastically different from what most of us experienced in our youth.
We must change our messaging to meet youth at their reality.
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Our Experience Vs. Their Experience
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Source: Monitoring The Future National Survey Results on Drug Use, 2017 OverviewThe University of Michigan Institute for Social Research http://www.monitoringthefuture.org
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Why Public Campaigns Alone Are Not Enough
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Don’t Be a Lab Rat – 2014Colorado’s First Youth Campaign Following Legalization
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Protect What’s Next – 2016Colorado’s Second Youth Campaign
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The Gap In Messaging
The gap between campaigns and classrooms
Missed opportunities for dialogue with trusted adults
Empowering educators, mentors and parents with science-based information
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Trusted Adults
As the physical, social and psychological “home away from home” for most youth, schools naturally assume a primary role in substance use education, prevention and early identification. School personnel often serve as highly influential role models by which preadolescents and adolescents judge themselves
- American Academy of Pediatrics
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Progressive Education Filling the Gap Between Public Campaigns and Public Education
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What Is Progressive Education?
● Moving past “Just Say No”
● Addressing marijuana as a legalized substance (in some states)
● Diving into advanced understanding of adolescent brain development to explain
why youth substance use can be detrimental to the still developing brain
● Talking about the human endocannabinoid system
● Highlighting the important differences between adult use and youth use as well as
the differences between medicinal use and recreational use
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How Do We Integrate Progressive Education and
What Does it Look Like?What are Marijuana’s Impacts on the Developing Brain?
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Development of the Prefrontal Cortex
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Executive Functioning Skills
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Working Memory
Reasoning
Flexibility
Problem Solving
Planning
Execution
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The Brain During Adolescence
Remodeling of the brain starts just before the teen years and continues well into the mid-twenties. ● Rapid Cell Growth● Pruning● Myelination
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Synaptic Pruning
•Pruning is designed to “rewire” the brain connections into more adult-typical patterns.
•The classic “use it or lose it” principle applies to synaptic pruning.
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Myelination
Myelination is the process of forming a sheath around a neurons to allow impulses to move must faster.
Neural connections that are myelinated can function up to THREE THOUSAND times faster than un-myelinated connections.
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Think of the brain as a system of highways
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The Human EndocannabinoidSystem
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Neurotransmitters and Receptors
Neurotransmitters are “messenger” chemicals in the brain. They travel to receptors, which are designed to receive them
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Neurotransmitters and Receptors
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• Neurotransmitters are like “keys”, and receptors are like “locks” in the brain.
• When a neurotransmitter (key) is inserted into a receptor (lock), instructions are given to the neurons to regulate various brain and body functions.
• If a key does not fit exactly into a lock, nothing happens.
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Anandamide
• Your brain has receptors designed to receive a specific type of neurotransmitter called anandamide, which your body naturally produces.
• Anandamide is called the “bliss” molecule because it plays a role in alleviating pain and depression, regulating appetite, supporting healthy sleep cycles, and influencing memory.
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Anadamide and THC
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The Tale of Two Brains
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A HEALTHY BRAINOn SPECT, the surface of a healthy brain looks smooth with full and symmetrical blood flow and activity. This tells us that the brain is working the way it is supposed to.
AN UNHEALTHY BRAINThis SPECT image of an unhealthy brain reveals inconsistencies on the surface, which represent areas of low blood flow and poor activity.
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Decreased Blood Flow and Activity
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18-year-old with a 3-year history of 4×week marijuana use
Decreased blood flow and activity in:‒ 1. prefrontal cortex (emotional
regulation) and‒ 2. temporal lobes (long term
memory)
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Remember the Highways?
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Addressing Medicinal Marijuana
Why having the conversation in the classroom is so important
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Jacks Law - 2016
Jack's Law requires school districts to establish policy allowing students to have access to medical marijuana on school grounds.
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Quintin’s Amendment - 2018
This law allows school nurses, or other school personnel, to administer cannabis-based medicine to children for whom it is prescribed. The law does not require schools to administer medical marijuana to students, but it gives them the power to choose to do so.
The Colorado Association of School Nurses, however, opposed the bill, concerned that nurses could lose their licenses for violating federal law. After all, cannabis remains a Schedule 1 narcotic at the federal level
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The Positive Impacts of Collaboration
Common Goals
Hearing from the boots on the ground
Authentic and Preventative Collaboration
Community Partnerships
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Authentic and Preventative Collaboration
The Colorado Cannabis Manufacturers Association recognizes the importance of authentic and preventative collaboration between industry and youth serving organizations. Such organizations provide us with critical insight in how we can prevent cannabis products from entering the hands of youth, and in-turn, continues to help our businesses remain responsible actors within the communities we serve.
-Kevin Gallagher, Director of Compliance and Government Affairs – Craft Concentrates
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Community Partnerships
We believe that responsible businesses should do their part in addressing social issues surrounding cannabis legalization. It is our responsibility to, along with legislators, regulators, youth-serving non-profits and other trusted adults, educate and help prevent youth use of cannabis. Through community partnerships like those with Denver Urban Scholars and the Marijuana Education Initiative, we support the development of age-appropriate information on cannabis to support youth prevention efforts.
-Shannon Fender – Director of Public Affairs, Native Roots Dispensary
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The Power of Community Norms
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Key Takeaways
Meet Youth Where They Are At
Use Progressive Science-Based Education to Fill the Gaps Between Campaigns and Classrooms
Promote Collaboration Between The Cannabis Industry and Youth Serving Organizations To Address Social Issues Surrounding Cannabis Legalization
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Sarah GrippaCo-Founder, CEOMarijuana Education Initiativesarah@meieducation.com970-846-6232www.marijuana-education.com