More Ontario students report using cannabis than tobacco, a survey released Wednesday shows. About 21% of Grade 7 to 12 students in Ontario say they used cannabis during the past year, according to the survey by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. The usage was higher among older students; 37% of Grade 12 students reported using pot, while the report called marijuana use among seventh graders as "negligible". On the other hand, almost 9% of students also reported smoking tobacco -- a level that has remained static for several years following a steady decline over the last couple of decades. [continues 326 words]
Pot Reduced Son's Seizures by 90% Mandy McKnight had tried more than 10 medications to control the seizures of her seven-year-old son, who suffers from Dravet syndrome. Two years ago, she decided to try medical marijuana. It reduced her son Liam's seizures by 90%, she said. But obtaining Liam's medical marijuana, which he consumes in an oil form, wasn't easy. McKnight didn't want Liam, who was five years old at the time, to smoke his medical marijuana, but that was the only legal way to consume it. [continues 373 words]
Forty-five pairs of shoes lined the Human Rights Monument on Elgin Street on Monday, representing the estimated number of people who died from drug overdoses in Ottawa last year. In accordance with International Overdose Awareness Day, members of Campaign for Safer Consumption Sites and Drug Users Advocacy League called for supervised injection sites in Ottawa to prevent drug overdoses and to challenge what they say is the stigma faced by drug users. Nic Diliso, one of the participants, said he was there to raise awareness and remember those he has lost due to drug overdose. [continues 236 words]
