What Two Cannabis Studies Tell Us Together That Neither Says Alone
One study found doubled psychiatric risk. The other confirmed youth use is falling. Together, they raise a harder question about the legal cannabis market.
Meredith McGee
I'm Meredith. I'm deeply curious about systems and what happens when they fall short. That curiosity has taken me a lot of places: reviving LGBTQ+ programming and building the first gender-inclusive housing at my college, writing grants that have funded over a million dollars in health equity and community programs, researching LGBTQ+ mental health at Yale, studying how people actually experience legal cannabis markets, and occasionally making things on the internet. The thread that connects all of it is trying to make public health make sense to the people it's supposed to serve.
Right now I'm in Boston, publishing Ground Level (a Substack about cannabis, public health, and the gap between policy and practice), doing research at Parabola Center for Law and Policy, and writing grants at Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center. I live with my partner K and a black lab named Ember who is scientifically proven to reduce my stress.
The latest from Ground Level, where I write about cannabis, public health, and the gap between policy and practice.
One study found doubled psychiatric risk. The other confirmed youth use is falling. Together, they raise a harder question about the legal cannabis market.
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Research and programming for communities that health systems tend to overlook.
What happens when cannabis goes legal — who benefits, who doesn't, and why.
Writing grants, building budgets, making the case for things that need funding.
Translating research into writing that people outside academia actually read.
Gender-inclusive housing, LGBTQ+ programming, community spaces — the infrastructure work.
How AI changes public health work. Still figuring this one out.