{"id":190512,"date":"2025-11-20T09:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/190512\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T09:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:48:10","slug":"everybody-vapes-weed-now-how-to-talk-to-teenagers-about-the-dangers-of-cannabis-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/190512\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Everybody vapes weed now\u2019: How to talk to teenagers about the dangers of cannabis use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Far from being a harmless rite of passage, cannabis use can interfere with brain development, but parents can put protective factors in place\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vaping weed has become more popular among teenagers. Photo posed: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2c833211-78cd-4c14-9eaa-f4f198964012.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Vaping weed has become more popular among teenagers. Photo posed: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When your teenager tells you that \u201ceveryone vapes weed now\u201d (never mind just smoking it!) or you overhear another parent shrug and say, \u201csure, we all tried it at that age\u201d, it may be tempting to start thinking that cannabis has become a fairly harmless rite of passage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/monitor\/2023\/06\/marijuana-effects-brain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in a recent article<\/a>, The American Psychological Association (APA), highlighted how adolescent cannabis use can interfere with their developing brain, and is an important reminder that \u201cjust weed\u201d isn\u2019t quite as benign for teenagers as popular culture suggests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Far from being a harmless rite of passage, cannabis use can interfere with brain development, but parents can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,12618,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-190512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-david-coleman","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115581400707392497","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}