"The Pied Pipers of Pot: Protecting Youth from the Marijuana Industry"

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About  Pamela McColl

Pamela McColl has been actively involved in the cannabis conversation for ten years, authoring both The Pied Pipers of Pot - protecting youth from the marijuana industry, and  On Marijuana: A Powerful Examination of What Marijuana Means to Our Children, Our Communities, and Our Future. She was called to testify before the The Food and Drug Administration’s Scientific Data and Information about Products Containing Cannabis or Cannabis-Derived Compounds Public Hearing May 31, 2019, and was a speaker at the National Cannabis Forum held in Los Angeles also in 2019 where she presented on the tobacco industry's strategy and their relation to the advertising associated with cannabis advertising. She has attended numerous UNODC meetings in Vienna and New York, participating in youth drug prevention and she testified before the Canadian government task force on legalization in 2014, providing hundreds of research papers that identified harms, including documents of the government's health watchdog - Health Canada that advised of the risks of harm even with small doses of THC, and of a particular threat to male reproductive health. 

She is a publisher, author by profession and was a subject of global media attention in 2012, for her deletion of the smoking of a pipe in the classic Christmas poem Twas The Night Before Christmas.  The simple enough edit attracted Stephen Colbert, Barbara Walters and many others to weigh in on the controversy.   Pamela was involved in the SmokeFree Movies Campaign, directed by Prof. Stanton Glantz. She  co-authored Baby and Me Tobacco Free - a guide to help pregnant women to quit tobacco before starting a family with the national director of Baby and Me Tobacco Free. She is currently finishing a third book on cannabis and harms scheduled for 2023.