What Every School Needs to Know About Cannabis

Everything teachers need to know about cannabis laws, risks, and student misconceptions in 2025

FREE live 30-minute Logo for Zoom webinar for school leaders and teachers to address cannabis use in your school.

Thursday 22 May, 2025 at 12pm AEST (BNE, SYD, MEL)

Cannabis isn’t everywhere
But the confusion is

Your students are hearing a lot – from TikTok, from older siblings, from the internet. And most of it isn’t true.

“It’s basically legal now, right?”
“Medicinal = safe”
“Mixing it with alcohol balances you out”
“Weed isn’t addictive”


They’re not hearing the risks. Or the facts.

This free session helps educators unpack the most common myths around cannabis, so you can respond with confidence and clarity, not guesswork.

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Who this is for

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  • Secondary school teachers
  • Principals and deputy principals
  • Wellbeing and health educators

What you’ll learn:

✅ What the law actually says about cannabis

✅ The difference between recreational and medicinal cannabis

✅ How cannabis interacts with alcohol and other drugs (poly-drug use)

✅ Common misconceptions and how to challenge them effectively

✅ How to talk about cannabis without moralising or alienating students

✅ Free classroom activities to make cannabis education more engaging

Why this is Important

Teenagers who use cannabis weekly are significantly less likely to finish school, enrol in university, or get a degree. But they’re rarely told that.

With legalisation debates growing louder, students need to think critically, not just copy what they’ve heard online. This session shows you how to help them do that.

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Backed by insights from 250+ workshops with 20,000+ students in Australian schools.

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Practical, evidence-based, and ready for the classroom.

What Every School Needs to Know About Cannabis

Everything teachers need to know about cannabis laws, risks, and student misconceptions in 2025

Free live 30 minute webinar | Logo for Zoom

This webinar is for school leaders and teachers to address cannabis use in their schools.

Thursday 22 May, 2025 at 12pm AEST (BNE, SYD, MEL)

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Presented By

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Dr. James Durl

  • Research officer and Lead workshop facilitator of Blurred Minds

  • More than 5 years delivering alcohol, vaping and drug education to schools

  • Multiple award-winning research spanning virtual reality and youth service design

Founded By

Prof. Timo Dietrich

  • Director and co-founder of Blurred Minds
  • Over 10 years of experience in the alcohol, tobacco and drug education space
  • Award-winning behaviour change expert & co-inventor of the Co-create – Build – Engage (CBE™) framework
  • Senior Fellow at National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research, University of Queensland

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