Stop Politicising Ganja Studies

A lecturer from the University of Technology (UTech) is calling on ganja researchers to stop politicising the ongoing studies into the weed's medicinal properties, and to provide accurate information so health-care workers can properly counsel pregnant mothers who have used the substance.

Paulette Larmond, lecturer of the Caribbean School of Nursing at UTech, made the call during a public forum on ganja, which was held during the second biennial Nursing and Midwifery Research Conference at the Holiday Inn Resort and Spa in Montego Bay on Friday.

"We need to quit the politics and do what needs to be done. In my readings, persons who were for the use of marijuana, their studies leaned that way, and those who were against it, it leaned the other way. So, we have no definite literature to say that this baby is preterm, or this mother went into premature labour because of marijuana," Larmond...

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