Problematic cannabis users are spending more than €100 a day on the drug and racking up considerable debts, a conference heard yesterday.
The HSE’s Youth Drug and Alcohol Service said that parents of these teenagers have on occasion paid out over €1,000 to drug dealers.
YoDA clinical nurse specialist Philip James was speaking at a conference about cannabis decriminalisation, organised by Community Awareness of Drugs.
The conference also heard from a former drugs adviser to three US presidents who warned that decriminalisation of cannabis was a “stepping stone” to full drug legalisation.
Two US states, Washington and Colorado, have legalised the sale and purchase of cannabis and other states may follow.
Mr James said the number of people aged under 18 coming to their service whose main drug of abuse was cannabis had increased from around 80 in 2012 to more than 90 in 2014.
Source: Cormac O'Keeffe, Irish Examiner, 17/10/15
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