MP warns of ill effects of ganja
Edmond Campbell, Senior Staff Reporter
MEMBER OF Parliament for North West St Ann, Dr Dayton Campbell, who is a medical practitioner, on Tuesday warned against the ill and wide-ranging negative effects of decriminalising marijuana, a proposal moved in a motion by his colleague Raymond Pryce.
Contributing to debate on the motion in Gordon House, Dr Campbell made it clear that as a member of the medical profession, he had a duty to put public health first.
Despite strong arguments from Pryce about acquisition of criminal records by young men for the smoking of a ganja spliff (a small portion), Dr Campbell cautioned that studies made a direct link between the smoking of cannabis and mental illness.
He acknowledged that Jamaica could benefit from research and subsequent development of useful cannabis products like canasol and asthmasol. However, he noted that the beneficial components of cannabis could only be derived from 'unsmoked...
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