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The National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA), in partnership with the United States Embassy, has launched the Youth Ganja Awareness Programme.
The programme is a public education campaign that is geared towards discouraging ganja use among young people, particularly those between 13 and 18 years of age.
Executive Director of the NCDA, Michael Tucker, told a JIS ‘Think Tank’, on November 5, that the campaign is very important and timely, because many of the young people in Jamaica are getting into problems because of ganja use.
“Over 20 per cent of young people in Jamaica experiment with ganja…in fact, 95 per cent of the clients that we see at the NCDA are actually young people who have issues that result from the use of ganja,” he said.
Mr. Tucker added that ganja is associated with low academic performance and with behavioural problems in schools.
For his part, Director of International Narcotics and...
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