I think cannabis has gotten a free ride. The older generation seems to have made it a banal issue by saying “oh well, it's just pot”, but that generation that thinks back to it was smoking what was 4% and 6% pot, and that's not what the kids are getting their hands on today.
Also, the information has not been divulged to people in terms of the exact mechanisms of damage in the developing brain. That's where we need to really step up to bat. I remember giving a lecture on adolescent addiction to a group of doctors. They all sat there with their jaws dropped. One of them, who was in charge of an adolescent health clinic, said, “In Quebec we have normalized the use of cannabis by adolescents.” That's normal behaviour, “normalized”.... Sorry, but it's not.
We've done a poor job because of the lack of research. Look, research in medicine occurs because drug companies see something with a new medication to enrich their shareholders at the end of the line. Not enough money has been put into research to demonstrate what's going on.