Ben Cort: The Truth About the Marijuana Industry and the Terrifying Effects of High-Potency THC
“Ten years ago … the idea of physical addiction to cannabis was absolutely laughable. That people would be having psychotic episodes, and then psychotic breaks, just from THC? It was unfathomable.”
Ben Cort is the CEO of the Foundry Treatment Center and author of “Weed, Inc.: The Truth About the Pot Lobby, THC, and the Commercial Marijuana Industry.”
“If one pictures their body as the cannabis plant, originally THC was about the size of our big toe,” says Cort. “By the mid-2000s, [it] was about up to our knee, and now we have THC-available products that are past our eyes.”
Cort is now fighting back against a multi-billion-dollar industry that he says turned a once natural, relatively harmless plant into a highly addictive, psychosis-inducing narcotic….