Cabinet is researching impact of marijuana use on youth

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A man smokes a marijuana cigarette as a large group gathered near the New Jersey Statehouse to show their support for legalizing marijuana Saturday, March 21, 2015, in Trenton, N.J. The event drew a diverse crowd of roughly 200 people. Many said they wanted to show their support for legalizing or decriminalizing pot, while others said it should only be given to people with medical conditions that could be eased by the drug. Several people were openly smoking the drug during Saturday's rally, but apparently none were arrested. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Three of six professionals who were selected by the Cabinet to carry out research on the impact of marijuana use on youth, were invited to give an interim report on the structuring of their methodology and presentation of their findings. 

The research which the team will conduct is to take into account the change in the law, three years ago, which decriminalized possession of 15 grams of the substance, and allowed for four trees to be grown at homes.

The anecdotal findings that more youth are experimenting with the substance will be determined by scientific approaches and guarantees of confidentiality.

The university professor, who is one of the three professionals appearing on Wednesday, will play a major role in designing the methodology.

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4 COMMENTS

  1. Are we now attempting to close the barn doors after the horses have bolted?
    From the onset, the government erred in decriminalizing marijuana and making it lawful for citizens to have four growing plants at their home.
    Since then, the youth have gone wild, wirh even very young children smoking the product openly on the streets, at home and at school.
    The Ministry of Health and Wellness should have resisted the Prime Minister’s and the Attorney General’s push to legalize the substance. Let’s just be honest and forthright: we have made a collosal mistake.
    Truth to tell, we don’t need any “research team” to tell us what we already know. The effect of legalizing the use of marijuana is evident and was never in doubt. The police, the courts, school principals, teachers, pastors and bishops, parents and guardians can readily attest to the blunder the government made three years ago. We have a duty to repeal the law and strengthen the measures to discourage the widespread use of a substance that is inimical to our childten’s educational development and a scourge to our society and law-enforcement efforts.
    A word to the wise should be sufficient, or so they say.

  3. It’s still illegal for minors to be in possession and or smoke marijuana. What I see is parents blaming the government for their inability to control their own children. Go right on ahead and criminalise it again, nothing will change.

  4. Oh please. It is still illegal for minors to be in possession of and or smoke marijuana. Parents need to stop blaming the government for their inability and unwillingness to control their own children. Every year in Antigua there is a carnival celebration with lewdness on full display in the streets for the youth to see, and we call it culture. Go right on ahead and criminalise it again, nothing will change. Control your damn children or stop procreating with wastemen.

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