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Not your parents’ pot: Experts, advocates push against teen use of highly concentrated THC products

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This article references suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. Michelle Thompkins wants to empower her son about cannabis and drug use, not scare him. “They didn't really do a good job with steering millennials away from those things,” Thompkins said. “It kind of made us want to rebel even more.” The 34-year-old mother brought her son, Micah Thompkins, to the “It’s Not Just Weed,” community forum, held at Kenwood Academy on Wednesday night. Micah Thompkins, 15, is a freshman at Kenwood, and is clear that he’s not interested in trying cannabis anytime soon. “That's just the personal boundary of mine. I'm not too really bright on trying anything that I don't really want to,” Micah said. The Thompkinses were two of about 60 people — mostly parents — who were present. Attendees expressed their concerns about weed and THC-based products getting into the hands of young pe

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