A former youth pastor, military recruiter, teacher, and recovery program leader wrote The Green Glitch after witnessing years of teenagers and young adults becoming addicted to high-potency THC vapes. He argues today's marijuana is engineered far stronger and more addictive than past decades, and wants to warn parents and communities without judgment.
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I didn't write The Green Glitch: What's Behind the Devil's Lettuce because it was trendy. I wrote it because I couldn't ignore what I kept seeing again and again right in front of me. For years, I served as a youth pastor. I sat across from teenagers who were searching for direction, for identity, for truth. I watched them wrestle with pressure, anxiety, and the pull of a culture that kept telling them, "This is normal." This is harmless. But what I saw didn't look harmless. I saw dependency. I saw confusion. I saw young lives quietly drifting off course. During my 20 years in the military, 9 years as a recruiting station commander, I interviewed thousands of young men and women. Thousands. And one pattern kept repeating itself. Talented, capable, motivated individuals disqualified. Not because they lacked discipline. Not because they lacked heart. But because they couldn't let go of marijuana. They would sit across from me and admit it. They tried to stop, but they couldn't. That's not casual use. That's not harmless. That's addiction. Later, I stepped into the classroom as a high school teacher. For 6 years, I've had students trust me with their stories. Real stories. Not headlines. Not statistics. Confessions. Students opening up about their dependence on vapes and high-potency THC products. Kids who feel stuck, kids who don't feel in control anymore, kids who were told this stuff was safe. And now in Western North Carolina, I lead a 12-step recovery program. I sit with people in the fight of their lives, people trying to take their lives back. And I've seen firsthand how this new marijuana is showing up in that fight. Stronger, more addictive, more damaging than what people remember from decades ago. That's why I wrote this book. That's why I made this film. Because what we're dealing with today is not the marijuana of the past. This is something different, something engineered, something powerful. And far too many people are being misled about what it really is. The Green Glitch is my line in the sand. It's a warning. It's a wake-up call. It's a message to parents, to students, to communities. We cannot afford to ignore this any longer. This isn't about judgment. It's about truth. If even one person reads this book or watches this film, if one life is redirected, one family is spared, one future is restored, then every word, every frame, every moment was worth it. The Green Glitch is available on Amazon. It's time to see clearly.
