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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Jamaican Psychiatrist Claims Ganja Making More Youths Psychotic 🌿Jamaican Psychiatrist Claims Ganja Making More Youths Psychotic
With an alarmingly high percentage of youth having psychotic episodes from ganja abuse, the National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA) is now rolling out a national public education strategy specifically targeting the younger population.
In fact, Jamaica's leading addiction psychiatrist, Dr Winston De La Haye, said he was seeing an increasing number of young patients experiencing ganja-related health problems following February's passing of the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2015 (also referred to as the Ganja Reform Law), which took effect on April 15.
"Part of what we (NCDA) are doing now is a study to measure the usage to get an exact number for a comparative following the relaxation of the laws. However anecdotally, I am having more young patients coming to me with their parents saying that their children believe the new laws give them the right to smoke ganja, so that's what they are doing," De La Haye,...
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