Cannabis Induced Psychosis Testimonies

Cannabis-Induced Psychosis Testimonies (Videos)

Gabriel Mondragon – How I lost my hand – Cannabis Induced Psychosis/Schizoaffective Disorder

Adam Is Experiencing Cannabis Induced Psychosis, Hear His Testimony of Hope

Whistleblower-Pot Industry Budtender Becomes Sick -Paranoia, Addiction, Psychosis

Cannabis-Induced Psychosis Recovery – Hayden Moreau

The Devastating Effects of Marijuana, Hazel B.

Recovering – My Son’s Cannabis-Induced Psychosis and Addiction

Recovering from Cannabis Addiction and Cannabis-Induced Psychosis

Marijuana, Dabs Pens, Psychosis, Suicide – Joshua’s Memorial Talk

Cannabis-Induced Psychosis, A discussion with Hayden and Aubree to Raise Awareness


Aubree Adams
Director of Every Brain Matters
Aubree Adams, Director of Every Brain Matters

Aubree Adams not only has a BS in Exercise Science and Health promotion, but she is most proud of her experience as a mom of two sons, and two dogs, and as a host mom for youth in recovery. After working as a physical therapy assistant for over 20 years, this former Pueblo Colorado mom found herself at ground zero of the marijuana expansion movement.  She has shared her devastating Colorado experiences and knowledge of marijuana for drug prevention coalitions, alliances, and health departments all over the country. She has presented her first-hand experience of this public health crisis before the FDA, and the documentary  Chronic State, and testified in many state governments; asking them to choose to embrace healthy children and families, not the drug culture expansion.

As Director of Every Brain Matters, a primary project of the Parent Action Network, she has grown a community of support and advocacy based on science.  She intends for the EBM logo to be recognized as a life “free from marijuana” and instead valuing optimal brain and environmental health.  Aubree co-developed Mar-Anon, a 12-Step program that gives support and hope to families affected by another person’s marijuana use. She also hosts a podcast called, “It’s Just Pot:  What’s the Problem?”, where she openly discusses the public health crisis caused by the marijuana expansion.  Aubree was honored to be a recipient of Drug Free America Foundation’s 2021 Moxie award and her op-ed was published in USA Today.

In 2018, Aubree decided to leave Colorado due to the harms legal marijuana caused her family and community and join her son in a dynamic enthusiastic recovery community in Houston Texas, where she has volunteered as the parent coordinator. She embraces the opportunity to host teens and young adults who are in recovery in her home.  She sponsors, supports, and encourages other parents to work their own recovery programs and currently leads an online recovery group through the Every Brain Matters community.


My Son Died From Marijuana Intoxication

My heart stopped that night, 3/27/2019 at 10:45 pm, when I looked down from the Joppa road bridge and saw my son’s body! I remember screaming to him, “Mommy is here”! The police officer who was doing compressions, then stopped and looked up at me.  Our eyes met for a moment; it was like a dream. Everything slowed down. This was a nightmare I could not wake up from! I believe my son died from marijuana intoxication. He got the drugs from the co-workers. Some of them had “Medical Marijuana Cards” and they were illegally selling it at work. Those so-called friends are still living and working at the same place, and other places in our town.


My Daughter Suffered Paranoia and Psychosis from “Medical Marijuana.”
MY DAUGHTER SUFFERED PARANOIA AND PSYCHOSIS FROM “MEDICAL” MARIJUANA


More Testimonies about Psychosis

Thanks to our partner, MomsStrong.org for gathering these important personal stories about marijuana and psychosis.

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My Son Was Hospitalized 15 Times

After release, he was untreated and manic. Despite having an offer of one year’s treatment, in exchange for cooking for the facility, he instead asked for his tent and took a job at a local restaurant.

He died 38 days later. He used a substance, thought to be cocaine which turned out to be 100% fentanyl. He died with fentanyl, marijuana and alcohol in his system.


Marijuana Triggered my Son’s Psychotic Break

Dear Members of Congress, I live in Vermont. I am an advocate against the legalization of Marijuana. Someone once said that the hottest place in Hell is reserved for the people who during times of critical debate kept their opinions to themselves. I think it’s wrong for the legislature to exclude the DOJ and the FDA from having oversight and legal authority over the production and distribution and safety of marijuana products.

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THC and Dabbing Triggered My Son’s Mental Health Crisis

Early one morning in February of 2018, we woke up to our son in full blown psychosis. My husband got on the computer and phone, looking for help, as I tried to keep our son calm. Somehow, we were able to get him to the local emergency room. I remember asking the attending physician if he had drugs in his system and she said, “only THC”. From there, he was admitted to a mental health facility, where he was diagnosed with bipolar 1.


Shane’s Story –a Marijuana Withdrawal Suicide

Shane was my first-born son who grew into a handsome 6’4” young man. He always seemed larger than life and he had a big heart, infectious smile, and zest for life. He excelled at sports, especially water sports, from a young age. Shane was a very normal, healthy teen and even weathered a back injury and surgery which made high school team sports no longer possible–so he transferred his athletic skills to wakeboarding! When Shane moved away from home at age 19, he began using recreational marijuana (unbeknownst to his family). At age 22, Shane endured prolonged physical rehab to his knee following a serious boating accident.It was later realized Shane had increased his use of “medical” marijuana as he was intolerant of the prescription pain medications. Shane was determined to proceed with his wedding to his longtime girlfriend, and a beautiful event was held on the campus of Cal Lutheran University on August 8, 2009.

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A New Jersey Mom’s Story

My daughter and son were able to get medical marijuana cards for anxiety when they turned 18. The anxiety has been felt by the family ever since then. They both have been diagnosed with cannabis psychosis which they don’t believe they have. It’s everyone else going against them.

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Marijuana Anxiety and Psychosis Led to my Son’s Suicide

Life’s been very difficult without that precious soul in my life. I’ve joined my church groups’ GriefShare online, that is helping but no one in that group has experienced what I went through. I called the county examiner and asked if they’ve run a toxicology on Daniel, they said no that they normally don’t in cases like this but if I ask that they would and I said yes please. Four weeks later they called me to confirm, the only thing in his system was marijuana!!!!  It’s been 4 months now, but there’s not a day that goes by that I don’t miss my beautiful son.

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Accepting the Unacceptable Consequences from Marijuana-Induced-Psychosis

I am a resident of California and the mother of a now 22 year old gifted son “Mel” who experienced an adverse reaction in part to THC edibles at ages 20 and 22.

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Marijuana and psychosis: One family’s story

Jake had become “like a walking zombie who was incoherent and catatonic,” Carl said of his son. Jake had been admitted and released by several state mental health facilities after suffering what Carl believes is cannabis-induced psychosis.

Dr. Marotta diagnosed Jake with schizophrenia – likely triggered by heavy cannabis use — and started experimenting with medications and dosages to treat Jake’s condition. Rocky told Carl it would take about four months to get the medication right; then up to a year to fully see “what we’re dealing with.”

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My Daughter’s Story

My daughter had a psychotic break in 2013.  She had been to a college graduation party in Chico, CA.  When she arrived home I knew she wasn’t “normal”.  I told my husband that I was taking her to emergency.  My husband, being a pot smoker told me to “mellow out”.  Took her, to emergency, she freaked out, and they wanted to hold her on a 51/50…..they tested her for drugs and concluded it was a marijuana-induced psychosis. 

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Brant’s Story

Marijuana Not Harmless for Everyone

When my son Brant was 17 years old, he had an experience with marijuana that triggered a sudden,major change in his mental state. Overnight, he felt permanently damaged and even ruined. During the next three days it became apparent that his deteriorating condition was the result of a psychotic break, and it soon led to emergency care at two hospitals. While many people smoke marijuana with no immediate adverse effect, it can be psychologically harmful and even devastating to a small portion of the population, especially teens like my son and young adults.Before this experience, Brant was a healthy, happy, bright and normal teenager.

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We Lost Ben at Age 21

COVID-19 hit in the middle of this and we are unable to go to CA to access him and celebrate his birthday in April, finally our youngest was going to be 21. Weeks pass by with little communication from him, but we found some comfort knowing he was clean, being regularly drug tested, staying in a home with a curfew and a house manager keeping watch on him pushing him to look for a sustainable job. We also began having talks with him to move him back to Ohio and he agreed. We were feeling relief and scared at the same time for we knew he needed some serious help but we wanted our son home. Our son would be home by the end of the week, we thought.

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It is Devastating to See Your Talented Son Go Down the Tubes

My name is Sharon,  I have been a preschool teacher for 18 years, married for 30, and am a mother of 3 children.  Tyler was the middle child, my first born son, and 24, when he died by suicide on July 28, 2018.  First, I have to tell you that I couldn’t be where I am today without my faith, my church, and God’s help.  He has pulled me up from the depths of despair to where I am now. Starting over new, step by step, and taking the tragedy I have experienced to now tell my story to warn other families about mental health and marijuana. We are all here for a purpose, and only God can help us turn tragedy into triumph!

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Goodbye Jolo, my ONLY Son

During a schizophrenic episode, my son ran into the roadway and was hit by a car. He had been saying he would kill himself since 4PM that day. He was hearing voices, the auditory hallucinations that are common in schizophrenia. The cause of death was ruled a suicide.

He had started using Marijuana at 21 years of age and was dead at 22. Four times 5150 admissions were authorized for him. The diagnoses were all the same, schizophrenic episodes secondary to THC use. No other substance was found in his body from any 5150 hospitalization or from his toxicology screen after death. 

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As Far as I’m Concerned, Marijuana Killed my Son

He had a good job that he liked and we felt he was progressing. But when he got off probation, he quit his job and started smoking heavily again.
During this time, we took him to various counseling centers and doctors, but nothing seemed to help him. He was diagnosed as “schizophrenic while under the influence of marijuana” by one psychiatrist. He was also having anxiety, multiple personality disorder and started cutting himself.

He always bragged that he used “top shelf” (high-THC) marijuana. But he assured us that he was using no other drugs, and we believed him

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My Son’s Journey from being an Accomplished Scholar-Athlete to Psychosis, Addiction, Jail and Living on the Street

Please everyone wake up, pay attention … this is REAL! The claims by the nay-sayers on the whole “correlation-causation” with no cause-and-effect relationship is like the beginning years of tobacco saying the warnings of nicotine and lung cancer were anecdotal and unfounded. Again, this has nothing to do with anything beyond wanting to warn people about the truth around marijuana and the brain. I am an open-minded individual who leans primarily liberal on most things. But I am also a mother who has watched her son’s life be destroyed and that of her family. The marijuana industry is a multi-billion dollar industry which is being driven by profit over the safety and well-being of human lives. The truth needs to be told.


“It took losing my nephew to marijuana to save my son”

My sister made the correlation between my nephew’s pot use and psychotic breakdowns, but I dismissed it because the doctors told us it wasn’t related. It wasn’t until my nephew’s funeral, and seeing how my nephew’s death affected my son, that it dawned on me that the two were related: that there is some genetic factor linking pot use to psychosis. My son realized it and hasn’t touched pot since. He’s terrified of it. Last year, he needed a ride and got in a car with friends who smoked pot in the car. My son said he felt strange the next day just from being exposed to second-hand pot smoke.

Our family has no history of psychosis yet we have 3 examples of marijuana impacting the mental health of family members. My son is also convinced that he has a few friends who have been seriously impacted by using.

Marijuana is NOT harmless and nearly killed my son

Brian had a psychotic break two years ago. Over the course of one month, he was 51/50’d three times. The first time he was taken to County Mental Health by the police. The second time he was taken to County Mental Health after checking himself into Emergency at a local hospital. The third time, he was taken to a lockdown psychiatric hospital.

After the second 51/50, he was released from County Mental Health where they gave him some clothes and a bus pass and sent him home. That night, he smoked more marijuana and accused his roommates of being undercover cops and spying on him. He was furious with them.