Pam Pearce

Community Organizer. Substance use prevention education is the cure! Co-founder, OR's 1st Recovery High School.

[Pam Pearce @PamFPearce]

Oregon has put common-sense regulations on these products, but as long as the hemp loophole remains open, children and consumers remain at risk from intoxicating hemp products. the hemp loophole must stay closed. https://t.co/Inbu5Q9SKy

@SenJeffMerkley @RonWyden

[Pam Pearce @PamFPearce]

@TheKevinDalton 😳🤬Unreal

[Pam Pearce @PamFPearce]

@realDonaldTrump Please don’t reschedule marijuana and normalize Big Weed. Rescheduling will enrich foreign cartels and Make America Sicker Again, not #MAHA.

[Bertha madras @madras_bertha]

Cannabis Rescheduling When Politics Trumps Science
https://t.co/qBYvHuskUJ

[Bertha madras @madras_bertha]

Trends in Past-Month Cannabis Use Among Older Adults | Cannabinoids | JAMA Internal Medicine | JAMA Network

Not a promising outlook for marijuana use among older people. Information I predicted 15 years ago. Cassandra’s gift was critical but painful. https://t.co/fVyOgxwDok

[Pam Pearce @PamFPearce]

https://t.co/MMqsvUTG6d

[Kevin Sabet @KevinSabet]

HUGE: Lankford Introduces Bill to Stop Tax Breaks for Marijuana Businesses

We won’t stop. Ever. Lots more up our sleeve this year, we’re just getting going. https://t.co/8hBDBdftvH

[Kevin Sabet @KevinSabet]

My statement on our huge news today. Thank you to everyone who worked so hard on this.

[Keith Humphreys @KeithNHumphreys]

Why have Americans turned cold on marijuana legalization? As Jon Caulkins and I describe in @TheAtlantic it could because legalization hasn't delivered what voters were promised.
https://t.co/AAjty29sPI

[Kevin Sabet @KevinSabet]

Don't take my word for it, listen to people smarter than me -- @KeithNHumphreys and Jon Caulkins in @TheAtlantic today: "Legal Weed Didn’t Deliver on Its Promises. Advocates touted a host of benefits and no real costs. That’s proven to be a fantasy."

"...This pause in what had seemed an inexorable movement toward wider—and eventually national—legalization is healthy. Leaping all the way from prohibition to the enthusiastic embrace of a for-profit, freewheeling, corporate cannabis industry has clearly created downsides and excesses that legalization advocates did not initially imagine (or, in some cases, admit)."

Free link --> https://t.co/LSojjIeRRu

[Pam Pearce @PamFPearce]

Kotek wants to cut opioid settlement spending on drug treatment, prevention. Here’s how she wants to spend the money https://t.co/YEGMIEH2sV

[Kevin Sabet @KevinSabet]

We are 4 for 4! Huge win in South Dakota!

[JEPPDX @jeppdx]

Question anyone who claims Oregon’s drug problem are caused solely by decriminalization(popular choice) or will be solved solely by reversing it(revised pop choice).

We use more, are addicted more, have worse mental health, and treat less.

➡️Prevention & treatment/recovery⬅️

[JEPPDX @jeppdx]

Oregon getting something right here: Recovery schools to help teens with substance use & mental health simultaneously. With legislated funding through 2029, an atypical Oregon investment in our youth…who face “a dangerous mix of challenges.” 👍💪

https://t.co/TAjtBWnc6F

[Parent Action Network @parentactionSAM]

The @TODAYshow aired a segment with Snoop Dogg that glorified marijuana use, showing no regard for the thousands of families impacted by this drug. We must speak up. Share your story and stand against this harmful message.

Click here: https://t.co/lLkjauqjIh

[Kevin Sabet @KevinSabet]

We have a choice:

Should we listen to Science or Shareholders?

[JEPPDX @jeppdx]

U.S. adolescent overdose & poisonings ~ doubled in 1 yr, the highest ever increase for any age group. Since then, it's not materially shrunk. Youth are more naïve about the new fentanyl/fake pill landscape...and less likely to learn about it from the news. Education matters!

[JEPPDX @jeppdx]

US slight drop in '23 drug deaths in total; flat or shrinking in 38 states.
AK/OR/WA still fast growing; they've outpaced all others also over 3 years & 5 years.
Fentanyl is having its way as current mix of investment/policy incl prevention, treatment, mh care ineffective.

[JEPPDX @jeppdx]

Illinois has been a leader lately in youth substance use prevention initiatives. Available now: A comprehensive “Substance Use Prevention and Recovery Instruction Resource Guide”. Thick w tools for administrators, teachers, parents, & community members!
https://t.co/cTRxqGOlV6

[JEPPDX @jeppdx]

To turn the OR ship, or anywhere, policies/behaviors/investment must get after many of these metrics: long-term effort across multiple fronts.
A veiled 'aha' from M110 mess: It was symptomatic of OR values & weak governance that don't serve us well? (2)
https://t.co/sfZDpgdell