Dr. Timmen L. Cermak majored in philosophy at Ohio Wesleyan, graduated from Case Western Reserve Medical School in 1972 and completed psychiatric residency and a post-doctoral fellowship in neurophysiology at Stanford. He co-founded the National Association for Children of Alcoholics in 1982, is a Past-President of the California Society of Addiction Medicine and chaired the CSAM Task Force on Marijuana Policy. Dr. Cermak chaired the Youth Work Group for Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom’s Blue-Ribbon Commission on Marijuana Policy and served on the Bureau of Cannabis Control’s Cannabis Advisory Committee, where he chaired the Public Health/Youth Subcommittee. He published Marijuana: What’s a Parent to Believe? with Hazelden in 2003 and From Bud to Brain: A Psychiatrist’s View of Marijuana was released in April 2020 by Cambridge University Press to provide basic science information about cannabis to healthcare professionals and educators. A book for the general public, also from Cambridge, titled Marijuana on My Mind: The Science and Mystique of Cannabis, was released on 4-20-22. Dr. Cermak retired from his private practice of psychiatry and addiction medicine in early 2021.

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Mason Turner, MD, DFASAM; Spencer Hansen, MD; Amy de la Garza, MD - No relevant disclosures