Pubdate: Thu, 10 Dec 2015
Source: Times, The (South Africa)
Copyright: 2015 AVUSA, Inc.
Contact:  http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1335
Author: J. Shirley
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n689/a09.html

LEGALISING DOPE IS MADNESS

THE "high hope for dope" headline was horrific! As the mother of a 
son who developed schizophrenia from smoking dagga, this news is devastating.

Visit any psychiatric hospital and you will find that many of the 
patients suffer from psychosis brought on by cannabis use.

If the state decides to open the gates of mayhem and suffering for 
the sake of the economy, this country is doomed to further degradation.

What should be of paramount importance is the preservation of a 
healthy, well-balanced, stable and productive human being.

The psychiatric hospitals will not be able to cope with the dire 
consequences and fallout.

J. Shirley, Western Cape
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