Registration open soon for March 2025!
Registration open soon for March 2025!
The Seventh annual CannAct Conference (formerly Public Health-Marijuana Summit) brings public health professionals, prevention specialists, equity advocates, public safety professionals, tobacco prevention professionals, partners, and other advocates together virtually to discuss the new and changing legalized cannabis landscape in our communities. The conference focus is policy, system and environmental change and youth prevention.
Previously known as The Public Health - Marijuana Summit
CannAct is a virtual Cannabis - Public Health Conference coming on 3/3-5/2025
March 3, 2025 Free introduction to cannabis and public health session!
Come engage in topics such as:
•Cannabis legalization: Past, present, future
•Cannabis policy and health equity
•Creating cannabis campaigns for youth today in the midst of the mental health crisis
•Models of state cannabis public health prevention work
•The impact of high potency cannabis use on the nature and frequency of schizophrenia
•Employee use and the shifting legal landscape
•Cannabis use throughout the lifespan: A review of current research and strategies for prevention
•Cannabis youth prevention tool-kit
The convergence of cannabis use disorder and mental health
•Public education and cannabis
•Legalization scramble: How to clarify, streamline, and educate on new cannabis laws
•Issues state regulators are facing today
•Positive alternative to suspension approaches for middle- and high-schools
•Evaluating community cannabis policies
•Greening out - What teens are saying today about weed
•Youth perceptions and lived experiences on cannabis use in their community
Registration closed for 2024. Watch for 2025
Plenary Speakers of 2024:
Gillian L. Schauer, PhD, MPH | Executive Director, Cannabis Regulators Association
Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, PhD, FSAHM | Stanford University, Founder and Executive Director Cannabis Awareness and Prevention Toolkit
Krysten Isaac | Vice President, Rescue: The Behavior Change Agency
Lyndsey Kellum, MEd | Research Scientist, Program Evaluator, Drug & Alcohol Institute, University of Washington
Dr. Beatriz Carlini, PhD, MPH | Research Associate Professor, Drug & Alcohol Institute, University of Washington
Sharon Garrett, MPH, MA | Research Scientist, Addictions, Drug & Alcohol Institute, University of Washington
Robb Hutson, MA | President, Organizer of CannAct, Rede Group
