Jason TremkoAward-winning Author and filmmaker

“Parents Need to Hear This About Marijuana”

8 Jan 2026 · 2 min

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In a single‑speaker YouTube monologue, a 20‑year Army veteran who also works as a high‑school teacher, youth pastor, and 12‑step recovery leader warns parents about modern high‑THC cannabis. He contrasts the low‑potency marijuana of the 1960s‑70s (1‑3% THC) with today’s strains that can reach up to 90% THC, arguing that the drug’s potency, health risks, and social impact have dramatically changed. The speaker claims that popular narratives portraying marijuana as natural, safe, and beneficial for anxiety, focus, or creativity are misleading. He outlines a series of concerns: motivation collapse, mental‑health decline, spiritual erosion, and ruined futures. Drawing on interviews and testimonials from people who have become addicted, he promotes his book/documentary “The Green Glitch: What’s Behind the Devil’s Lettuce?” as evidence of the science behind modern THC, the hidden health hazards, misinformation presented as facts, and the severe effects on education, work, and decision‑making. He emphasizes that recovery is harder than commonly believed and frames the message as a non‑political, non‑fear‑mongering call to parents to question the normalization of cannabis use.

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What if everything you've been told was only part of the story? In the 1960s and '70s, marijuana averaged 1 to 3% THC. Today, it can reach 90%. Same name, very different drug. We're told it's natural. We're told it's safe. We're told it helps anxiety, focus, creativity. But no one talks about the motivation collapse, the mental health spiral, the spiritual origins, the wrecked futures hiding behind the smoke. As a 20-year Army veteran, a high school teacher, a youth pastor, a 12-step recovery leader, I didn't study this from a distance. I watched it happen, in schools, in homes, and on the road. With real interviews and testimonials from addicted people, this book pulls back the curtain on: the science behind modern THC, the health risks no one warns you about, the misinformation pushed as "facts," the real impact on education, work, and decision-making, and why recovery is harder than people think. This isn't fearmongering. This isn't politics. This is what's being ignored. Because when something feels normal, we stop questioning it. The Green Glitch: What's Behind the Devil's Lettuce? Before you say it's harmless, before you light up, before someone you love pays the price, read what's behind the glitch.