Pharmacist group takes aim at weed

The particular Rural Pharmacist Culture yesterday issued a statement calling intended for cannabis to be used to get medicinal purposes only.

The group expressed concern about the decriminalisation of marijuana which has led to lots of people using it recreationally. Deficiencies in adequate controls to prevent cannabis use beyond medicinal purposes could have a negative impact on young people’s physical plus mental development, it said.

In light of this, the group has called at the government to order the planting of cannabis to be suspended as the controls, which includes registration for growing, are not adequate.

It also wants the government to stop the particular sale of cannabis pals in public. Permission should be obtained for the sale and the number must be restricted and the users must be specified.

The use of marijuana as an ingredient pertaining to food or other everyday products should be shown on item labels and the authorities must provide treatment for people who suffer uncomfortable side effects, the group mentioned.

In Nakhon Phanom, Sakda Chaiphai, director of the Secondary Education Services Area Office associated with Nakhon Phanom, said yesterday that a minimum of six students in a school in Em Kae district admitted they had tried cannabis.

He said officials from the Office of the Drugs Control Board frequented the school to educate college students about the use of marijuana as well as to conduct urine drug testing.

The authorities told students that will any of them whom had used cannabis should come thoroughly clean about it before the check otherwise they might be punished by the school movie director.

After that, six students admitted to doing so, Mister Sakda said, including it was believed cannabis could have been consumed by students in other institutions. He said a total of 55 supplementary schools in the state have now been declared off-limits to marijuana.