Making Safe and/or Healthy Choices

10 Questions about Cannabis Use and Your Students

Grade/Audience: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Administrators, Parents/Guardians

Topic: Brain development, Cannabis, Effects of cannabis use, Factors influencing safe choices, Mental health, Misuse prevention, Protective and/or risk factors, Social implications, Youth/Student engagement

Type: Infographic

MentalHealthLiteracy.org (formerly TeenMentalHealth.org)


Canada’s Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines (LRCUG)

Grade/Audience: 6, 7, 8, 9

Topic: Effects of cannabis use, Substance use, addictions and related behaviours

Type: Resource

CAMH / Canadian Research Initiative on Substance Misuse


Cannabis: What Educators Need to Know

Grade/Audience: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Administrators

Topic: Addiction/addictive behaviours, Brain development, Cannabis, Effects of cannabis use, Legal implications, Mental health, Protective and/or risk factors, Rules for recreational cannabis, Social implications, Substance use, addictions and related behaviours

Type: Fact sheet

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)


Cannabis: What Parents/Guardians and Caregivers Need to Know

Grade/Audience: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Parents/Guardians

Topic: Addiction/addictive behaviours, Brain development, Cannabis, Effects of cannabis use, Legal implications, Misuse prevention, Protective and/or risk factors, Social implications, Youth/Student engagement, Substance use, addictions and related behaviours

Type: Fact sheet

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)


Discussing Pot and Driving With Teenagers

Grade/Audience: 9, 10, 11, 12, Administrators

Topic: Cannabis, Effects of cannabis use, Factors influencing safe choices, Misuse prevention, Protective and/or risk factors, Rules for recreational cannabis, Social implications, Substance use, addictions and related behaviours

Type: Guide

Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA)


Don’t Drive High

Grade/Audience: 10, 11, 12, Administrators

Topic: Cannabis, Effects of cannabis use, Legal implications, Misuse prevention, Protective and/or risk factors, Rules for recreational cannabis, Substance use, addictions and related behaviours

Type: Resource

Government of Canada


The High Way Home

Grade/Audience: 9, 10, 11, 12, Administrators, Parents/Guardians

Topic: Effects of cannabis use, Factors influencing safe choices, Protective and/or risk factors, Youth/Student engagement

Type: Resource

Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addictions (CCSA)