The Marijuana Risk for Teens with Dr. Larry Walker

The cultural environment around marijuana is changing rapidly, and there is much that parents and students may not understand about the effects of cannabis on young people’s brains and their mental health. In this episode of The Mayo Lab podcast, Dr. Larry Walker and David talk about the importance of understanding that, as David puts it, this is not your parents’ or grandparents’ mild marijuana. Marijuana is exponentially more powerful—and often more dangerous and, in fact, addictive—now than it was in recent decades.

Dr. Larry Walker is the interim director of the National Center for Cannabis Research and Education (NCCRE) at the School of Pharmacy at the University of Mississippi and director emeritus of the National Center for Natural Products Research at the University. Larry earned his B.A. in Biology at Oglethorpe University, his BS in Pharmacy at Mercer University, and his Ph.D. in Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University.

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