Lauren from Truro said her son started smoking marijuana at age 15, about a year after recreational weed was legalized for adults in Massachusetts. She said she wasn’t worried at first, and thought weed was less dangerous than alcohol.
Then, two years later at the age of 17, he started experiencing psychotic episodes. He was involuntarily committed to mental health facilities in the years to come and eventually put in prison for a violent outburst while he was in psychosis, she said.
“When you come face-to-face with someone who’s lost touch with reality — that you know and have known their whole life — it throws you off,” Lauren said. “We learned the hard way cannabis was dangerous.”…