Consultant has seen ‘five or six cases’ of young people having strokes after using herbal cannabis.
High potency cannabis is putting young people who heavily use the drug at risk of stroke, a leading specialist told an inquest.
Consultant stroke physician professor Joseph Harbison told Dublin Coroner’s Court that doctors at St James’s Hospital have seen “five or six cases” of young people having strokes following the use of herbal cannabis in the past three years. The strokes may be linked to the increased potency of cannabis available in Ireland over that period, he said.
He was speaking at the inquest into the death of 33-year-old Noel Boylan of Oliver Bond House in Dublin 8 who collapsed on Thomas Street in the city centre on August 17th last year.
Source: Gareth Naughton, Irish Times, 12/10/2013
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