The Western Cape has the highest number of dagga smokers in the country and 42 percent of dagga smokers attending treatment centres are under the age of 20. (from IOL)
The Department of Social Development says alcohol is the most frequently abused substance by young and old.
"We have 9.2 percent of our population - twice that in other parts of the world - who use cannabis. It will be a grave mistake to legalise cannabis as elsewhere in the world," Central Drug Authority (CDA) deputy chairman David Bayever said while addressing the standing committee on community development on Wednesday.
"We legalised alcohol and never mind the money made from it - alcohol is our biggest problem. The cost to society is horrific. We cannot make the same mistake twice."
The statistics Bayever used were based on a 2000 to 2008 report the Medical Research Council did for the department.
At 16 percent, the province has the country's highest rate of binge drinking, particularly among young people and in rural areas.
David Bayever is responsible for "drug policy" in the country. He heads up the Central Drug Authority. He is ULTIMATELY responsible for the drug HE legalised and he does not want to make the same mistake twice! So what has he done about his FIRST mistake providing us with 70 bodies a day? Absolutely NOTHING, that's what. So now he's ready to start pronouncements regarding cannabis, probably the safest drug in the world, considering that so many people are apparently doing it!? If it's so dangerous...? Where are the bodies? Mr Bayever and the CDA have kept the 2004 Cannabis Position Paper hidden. The paper dealing with a drug does not cover the toxicity of the drug, nor how many death have arisen from it! Ignore the rest of the world, but don't think that they haven't or are not learning from the Portugal solution! Alcohol consumption has doubled in 8 years. Violence has followed suit. 10% of children are being born with FAS (retarded). This is David's first mistake. Now he says NO TO CANNABIS!? That is David's second mistake. Cannabis is EXACTLY what the whole country needs to stick in it's collective peace pipe so that it can CHILL out. 80% of admissions at the casualty wards in the Western Cape are alcohol related. The ARA would have us believe that the evidence does not support the conclusion that alcohol consumption causes violence.
Here is a brief history of cannabis
Followed by Robert Mueller head of the FBI admitting that cannabis has never killed anyone
The Department of Social Development says alcohol is the most frequently abused substance by young and old.
"We have 9.2 percent of our population - twice that in other parts of the world - who use cannabis. It will be a grave mistake to legalise cannabis as elsewhere in the world," Central Drug Authority (CDA) deputy chairman David Bayever said while addressing the standing committee on community development on Wednesday.
"We legalised alcohol and never mind the money made from it - alcohol is our biggest problem. The cost to society is horrific. We cannot make the same mistake twice."
The statistics Bayever used were based on a 2000 to 2008 report the Medical Research Council did for the department.
At 16 percent, the province has the country's highest rate of binge drinking, particularly among young people and in rural areas.
David Bayever is responsible for "drug policy" in the country. He heads up the Central Drug Authority. He is ULTIMATELY responsible for the drug HE legalised and he does not want to make the same mistake twice! So what has he done about his FIRST mistake providing us with 70 bodies a day? Absolutely NOTHING, that's what. So now he's ready to start pronouncements regarding cannabis, probably the safest drug in the world, considering that so many people are apparently doing it!? If it's so dangerous...? Where are the bodies? Mr Bayever and the CDA have kept the 2004 Cannabis Position Paper hidden. The paper dealing with a drug does not cover the toxicity of the drug, nor how many death have arisen from it! Ignore the rest of the world, but don't think that they haven't or are not learning from the Portugal solution! Alcohol consumption has doubled in 8 years. Violence has followed suit. 10% of children are being born with FAS (retarded). This is David's first mistake. Now he says NO TO CANNABIS!? That is David's second mistake. Cannabis is EXACTLY what the whole country needs to stick in it's collective peace pipe so that it can CHILL out. 80% of admissions at the casualty wards in the Western Cape are alcohol related. The ARA would have us believe that the evidence does not support the conclusion that alcohol consumption causes violence.
Here is a brief history of cannabis
Followed by Robert Mueller head of the FBI admitting that cannabis has never killed anyone
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