Cannabis-Induced Psychosis: A Mother's Story of Love and Loss - Tara Couture of Slowdown Farmstead

Cannabis-Induced Psychosis: A Mother's Story of Love and Loss - Tara Couture of Slowdown Farmstead

In 2021 Tara and her family got the knock on their door that every parent fears most. In the days that followed they discovered eighteen-year-old Mila's journal and were able to piece together the shocking and devastating chain of events that led to her death.

Tara's Instagram and Substack, Slowdown Farmstead, is followed and admired by tens of thousands of people. Tara and her husband raised their three daughters on their beautiful Canadian farm, lovingly tending to and butchering their own livestock in order to nourish their family and community. Deeply acquainted with the cycles of nature, Tara has a perspective on the interconnectedness of life and death that was the daily reality for our ancestors but eludes most modern people.

But that did not prepare her for what could happen when a drug that is now bred to be as strong as any pharmaceutical- and which is often misunderstood as being a benign herbal medicine- snuck its way into her daughter's life at a vulnerable time and completely rewired her brain in a matter of months.

It is our hope that sharing Mila's story will make more people aware of the increasingly common psychosis that is a side effect of the new high-THC strains of cannabis on the market, and especially of its dangers for the developing teenage brain.

Please read the articles linked below for more.

Tara's essay What Happened To Our Daughter- don't miss the dozens of resources about the risks of cannabis at the end

How Weed Became the New OxyContin: Big Pharma and Big Tobacco Are Helping Market High-Potency, Psychosis-Inducing THC Products as Your Mother's 'Medical Marijuana'

Patreon bonus conversation- What We Want Our Daughter To Know: women, restriction, chronic illness & more on Tara's metabolic journey

Learn more about Tara's book Radiance of the Ordinary

Slowdown Farmstead on Substack and Instagram

Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome

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Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

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