2026 Keynote speakers

  • Effects of marijuana on the growing brain

  • Gas station intoxication

  • Are you bringing a 90's playbook to 2026 cannabis prevention?

  • AI in Cannabis Prevention

The 8th annual CannAct Conference brings public health professionals, prevention specialists, equity advocates, public safety professionals, tobacco prevention professionals, partners, and other advocates together virtually to discuss the new and changing legalized cannabis landscape in our communities. The conference focus is on prevention, public health, and policy, system and environmental change.

National and local experts will lead discussions for those who currently have legalized retail cannabis and for those who want to be prepared for when it comes.

Some of this year’s topics include:

  • Effects of cannabis on the growing brain

  • Creating cannabis campaigns for youth today

  • Challenges to protecting smokefree laws and norms

  • Exploring the connection between cannabis use and injury

  • Cannabis use throughout the lifespan: Prevention and Aging Populations

  • Cannabis youth prevention

  • Using opioid settlement funds for upstream THC prevention

  • Hemp-derived THC, psilocybin, nitrous oxide, kratom, and other emerging high-risk products

  • Updating your 90’s prevention playbook

  • Cannabis trends, and emerging community impacts

  • The rural paradox

  • Addressing cannabis use among older adolescents and young adults

  • Local cannabis tax revenue investment in prevention

  • Youth perceptions and lived experiences on cannabis use in their community

  • Patterns of cannabis use and change efforts in young adults

  • How to match prevention messaging to the local market

  • AI in cannabis prevention: opportunities, limitations, cautions, and what

    practitioners might want to know