Educating and advocating about the costs and harms of retail THC at the 2026 @TexasTribune Festival! @EveryBrainMatt and @CitizensSafe

Let’s Get THC-Mess out of Texas! I’m thankful for the chance to participate in today's discussion at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin. I speak out because I care — Every Brain Matters(@EveryBrainMatt . It's important for Citizens for a Safe and Healthy Texas (@CitizensSafe) to be heard. America must listened to the Moms, to get out of this situation! THC can never be safely regulated due to its fat-soluble nature. Predicting who will develop psychosis is impossible—it's like Russian roulette. We only know that higher potency, increased use, and younger age, elevate the risk. Adults are also affected; many are experiencing psychosis because of THC across the country. In Austin, the streets are filled with young men suffering from psychosis and homelessness, and we must recognize THC as a major factor behind this. #txlege @VikkiGoodwinTX , @GregAbbott_TX ,@DanPatrick, @jamestalarico

There's nothing to be proud of, unless you like profiting from people becoming mentally ill? 🎥 **Watch and share: *THC: The Driving Force to Psychosis.*** **Texans—and especially Texas taxpayers—deserve to know the consequences of THC before the state goes any further down the road of normalizing and commercializing its use.** THC is not just another retail product. It is a **psychoactive drug associated with addiction, psychosis, and schizophrenia**—and the consequences don't stop with the individual. Families suffer. Communities absorb the damage. Taxpayers are left paying for psychiatric crises, emergency care, criminal-justice involvement, disability, and homelessness. **Texas should not build or promote a commercial THC industry first and ask questions about the human and taxpayer costs later.** ### The research should be a warning: 🧠 **Cannabis-induced psychosis had the highest pooled transition rate to schizophrenia among the substances examined** in a major systematic review and meta-analysis—about **34%, compared with 22% for amphetamine-induced psychosis.** Source: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article… ⚠️ **47.4% of people diagnosed with cannabis-induced psychosis later developed schizophrenia-spectrum or bipolar disorder** in a large Danish study—the highest conversion rate among the substance-induced psychoses studied. Source: psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.… 🚨 **Young men face an especially alarming risk.** Research highlighted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse estimated that **as many as 30% of schizophrenia cases among men ages 21–30 might have been prevented in the absence of cannabis use disorder.** The underlying Danish research examined health records from more than **6 million people across five decades.** Source: nida.nih.gov/news-events/new… ### And a psychotic disorder can be only the beginning of the fallout. Serious mental illness and substance-use disorders can be part of a devastating downward spiral: **psychiatric crises, hospitalization, family disruption, unemployment, criminal-justice involvement, housing instability, and homelessness.** These consequences don't remain behind the closed doors of one family. **They become a community problem and a taxpayer burden.** Read more about the connection between commercialized marijuana, serious mental illness, and homelessness: everybrainmatters.org/2025/1… **Texas should confront these risks before expanding a commercial THC industry—not after the damage is done.** **The public deserves the facts before policies that promote use—not after another family is already living with the consequences.** @realDonaldTrump @TuckerCarlson @RealCandaceO @GregAbbott_TX @greggutfeld @Riley_Gaines_ @JDVance @MELANIATRUMP @SLOTUS @DanPatrick @jamestalarico @tedcruz #txlege #thcfree #psychosis #CIP #schizophreniaawareness #safehealthytexas #CUD #mentalhealthawareness #homelessness #PublicHealth #everybrainmatters