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Resources for teachers and community organizations
Learn the facts
- Youth Marijuana Prevention Toolkit: A Guide for Parents, Teachers and Adults (5.9 Mb)
A simple, comprehensive resource for parents and other influential adults on the health and safety effects of youth marijuana use, Washington state's marijuana laws, and popular marijuana products. - Health effects of cannabis use: the current evidence on benefits and risks, Public Health Insider
- Marijuana and Health blogs, Public Health Insider
- Know this about Cannabis, Washington State Dept. of Health
- Marijuana and Public Health, CDC
- 5 things to know about marijuana use while pregnant or breastfeeding (147 Kb), WA State Dept. of Health
- The Cannabis/Marijuana Awareness & Prevention Toolkit, Stanford Medicine
Educational campaigns
Statewide campaigns
- Know this about Cannabis, for adults
- Start Talking Now: for influential adults
- You Can: for youth
Campaign toolkits
The Washington Department of Health provides social press kits for each of their campaigns. The toolkits are password protected—contact Sarah Ross-Viles at srossviles@kingcounty.gov for access.
- You Can
- Know this about Cannabis
- Under the Influence...Of You: campaign focused on directing influential adults to Start Talking Now
Local campaigns
Youth Leadership Initiative
The Youth Leadership Initiative (YLI) is a coordinated group of youth leaders and adult facilitators who work to change favorable youth attitudes toward underage marijuana use. The YLI will work on changing favorable attitudes by increasing resilience planning in and amongst youth, building and strengthening leadership and communication skills with YLI participants, and empowering YLI participants to continually shape planning and implementation of YLI program initiatives.
In 2017, youth leaders developed a series of public service announcements to explain why youth marijuana use is concerning.
Watch the videos to hear from the youth, in their own words: