Posted on September 3, 2026 View all news
Imagine discovering—only after your child or loved one was in crisis—that marijuana could cause addiction, psychosis, suicidal thoughts, or a devastating physical illness.
Imagine watching someone you love become unrecognizable after using a product you were repeatedly told was natural, legal, or harmless.
Now imagine searching desperately for answers, only to find industry messaging everywhere—and very little information about the risks your family is actually facing.
This is the painful reality for far too many families who contact Every Brain Matters. They often tell us the same thing:
“If only we had known.”
Every Brain Matters exists so fewer families are forced to say those words. But we cannot reach them without your help.
Education, Support, and Change
Every Brain Matters is a trusted national educational resource that challenges misinformation and empowers families, youth, policymakers, and communities with evidence-based and experience-informed information about modern marijuana and THC.
While the commercial marijuana industry spends enormous amounts of money advertising its products, influencing public opinion, and shaping policy, families are left to carry the emotional and financial consequences when those products cause harm.
Every Brain Matters provides a vital counterbalance grounded in science, lived experience, compassion, and public health.
We also advocate for meaningful change by working to reform harmful policies, pursue legal accountability, and confront industry practices that commercialize and normalize THC while minimizing its risks. By bringing scientific evidence and family experiences into the public conversation, we help ensure that policymakers understand the real consequences of today’s potent THC products.
Your Donation Makes This Work Possible
Your support helps Every Brain Matters provide:
- The Dispensing Truth project, which creates science-based educational graphics and shareable resources
- Printable pamphlets and community materials explaining cannabis use disorder, cannabis-induced psychosis, and cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome
- A comprehensive educational poster explaining THC’s effects on the brain and body
- Education about THC-impaired driving
- Presentations, videos, podcasts, and speakers
- Free family support meetings, peer connections, and recovery resources
- The Voices of Marijuana Harms, which gives affected families a place to tell the truth about what happened
- The Every Brain Matters Memorial, which honors lives lost to marijuana-related harms and was recognized in the 2026 White House National Drug Control Strategy
- Advocacy to reform harmful policies, confront damaging industry practices, and pursue legal accountability
Explore our marijuana educational resources, support and recovery resources for families, and advocacy efforts.
Behind Every Resource Is a Family Who Needs It
A donation to Every Brain Matters is more than a financial contribution.
It can help a parent recognize the warning signs of cannabis-induced psychosis. It can connect a frightened family with people who understand. It can place truthful information into the hands of a young person before THC use begins. It can help a grieving family preserve the story of someone they loved. It can ensure that policymakers hear from families—not only from a powerful industry.
Every Brain Matters Director Aubree Adams is a leading national educator and advocate for families affected by marijuana-related harms. Drawing on her own family’s experience, she speaks at conferences, appears in national media, debates industry representatives, and empowers families to share their stories with policymakers.
But Aubree and the families standing beside her cannot do this alone.
The need for education and support continues to grow. Every new resource, family meeting, presentation, memorial tribute, and advocacy effort requires time, care, and funding.
Please Help Us Reach the Next Family Before It Is Too Late
No family should have to learn about marijuana’s risks only after a preventable tragedy. No parent should have to search for answers alone. And no powerful industry should be allowed to control the public conversation while harmed families struggle to be heard.
Your donation helps us replace misinformation with truth, isolation with support, and pain with meaningful change.
Please donate today and help Every Brain Matters reach the families who still do not know how harmful modern marijuana and THC can be.
Because when families know the truth, they have a chance to protect the people they love.
Every family deserves that chance—because every brain matters.
