The Cannabis/Marijuana Awareness & Prevention Toolkit

1. learn basic information about all cannabis/marijuana products;

2. understand how their brain develops, and how cannabis/marijuana influences this development;

3. identify ways of how using cannabis/marijuana can interfere with the development of life skills all adolescents need to be learning now;

4. process how using cannabis/marijuana can get in the way of finding out what can bring them pleasure;

5. explore who they are and what they like, as alternatives to cannabis/marijuana use;

6. learn why and how some people (1 in 6 youth) can become addicted to cannabis/marijuana;

7. continue not to use cannabis for those who currently do not use cannabis/marijuana;

8. consider decreasing, delaying, or stopping the use of cannabis/marijuana for those who are current cannabis/marijuana users;

9. gain refusal skills to address peer pressure of experimentation and use of cannabis/marijuana.