Dr. Daniel Amen

It certainly alters your brain.

It works on CB1 receptors.

So there are cannabis receptors in your brain, endocannabinoid receptors, and it

activates dopamine, which means you feel high, feel rewarded, want to do it again.

For sure.

And in vulnerable people, it actually disrupts dopamine.

So it doesn't work consistently, effectively.

And if it disrupts it, if it goes too high, then for vulnerable people, you can become psychotic.

You can begin to lose touch.

with what's real and what's not real.

So if you think of psychosis, that's the definition of psychosis, is you begin to have trouble differentiating what's real and what's not.

You might have delusions, hallucinations,

And it triggers psychosis that in some people will turn into schizophrenia, which is arguably the worst psychiatric illness.

No, it's awful.

And so why would you use something if you didn't know your genetic risk that could flip you into not knowing what's real or not?

Because you had no idea it was risky?

And you don't love your brain.

See, I heard President Trump talk at the Department of Justice.

He had a conversation with the Mexican president about why Mexico exports drugs, but they're not a big drug-using country, which I thought was really interesting.

And she said, well, family's really important to us.