Students Taken To Hospital After Allegedly Smoking Ganja On 'Decriminalisation Day'

At least two students were taken to hospital yesterday for suspected psychosis, brought on after they reportedly smoked marijuana to enhance their learning potential.

Education Minister Ronald Thwaites said in Parliament yesterday that he received troubling information from two principals that the 'decriminalisation day' for the weed coincided with maladjusted behaviours of students who, it seemed, believed that it was OK to smoke ganja.

"I got reports from two principals today of students feeling that ganja is now free and that they can now smoke it, and in one case, he [a principal] had to take more than one student to a nearby hospital for symptoms of psychosis," Thwaites later told The Gleaner.

"I don't know if they smoked at school or before school, but they presented at school with symptoms that required that action on his part," the minister added.

Psychosis is a severe mental disorder in which thought and...

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