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pot, the teen brain & free newsletter

This article showed up earlier this week. It is well worth the time...and that reminds me to suggest you sign up for their bi-weekly email.

Pot and the Teen Brain

Today’s teens are smoking a more potent form of marijuana and starting to use at increasingly younger ages – during crucial brain development years.1 There is plenty of evidence indicating the ways pot impedes, even changes, the mental health of adolescents. In fact, changes in the brain due to marijuana use are similar to those caused by cocaine, heroin and alcohol.2 The overall impact that marijuana has on the brain can have long-term consequences. This is where YOU come in. The first step in being able to discuss the dangers of marijuana with your teen is knowing the facts. To better understand how marijuana affects the different regions of the brain, read on! Find out how marijuana affects a developing teen brain. Take virtual tour>>

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Beautiful Disaster

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This was a song that was played for me recently, and it really hits on some of the struggles young girls are having right now, especially during teenage years. The song struck a chord with me, and hopefully it will you too. Below are the lyrics so you can hear the song for yourself:

She loves her mama's lemonade, Hates the sounds that goodbyes make. She prays one day she'll find someone to need her. She swears that there's no difference, Between the lies and complements. It's all the same if everybody leaves her. And every magazine tells her she's not good enough, The pictures that she sees make her cry.

And she would change everything, everything just ask her. Caught in the in between of beautiful disaster, And she needs someone to take her home.

She's giving boys what they want, tries to act so nonchalant, Afraid they'll see that she's lost her direction. She never stays the same for long, Assuming that she'll get it wrong. Perfect only in her imperfection. She's not a drama queen, She doesn't want to feel this way, only seventeen but tired.

She would change everything for happy ever after. Caught in the in between of beautiful disaster, But she just needs someone to take her home.

Cuz she's just the way she is, but no ones told her that's ok. And she would change everything, everything just ask her. Caught in the in between of beautiful disaster, And she would change everything for happy ever after. Caught in the in between of beautiful disaster, But she just needs someone to take her home And just needs someone to take her home.