ME TOO! –
June 4, 2026 – Days before President Donald Trump sparked the reorganization with an order late last year, the American Journal of Preventive Medicine published a study concluding that commercialization of cannabis sales may disproportionately affect adolescents with psychiatric illnesses or vulnerabilities, increasing psychiatric emergency incidents. A health article the National Library of Medicine published three years prior asserts that cannabis can trigger acute psychotic symptoms. Young people with preexisting mental health vulnerabilities may be especially prone to that psychosis, the study adds.
State House Speaker Chip Neiman, R-Hulett, referenced accounts like these in an interview last December.
“We’re talking about a product right now that is not ditch weed,” he said. “I just hate to see the door thrown open here, and (us) saying, ‘Hey, go for it.’”
