NewsTalk ZB 11 August 2020
Our additional comment: “I’m not sure whereabouts the mental health part got ignored in trying to legalise cannabis, but adding cannabis to the mix in a country awash with mental health issues doesn’t seem like the smartest idea to me.”
Yep
I know of four families who lost teenagers to suicide these past school holidays.
I hear there were 7 families impacted by suicide in the Queenstown area in the past two weeks.
Our suicide rates in this country should be of no surprise to anyone – we have the worst rate of teen suicides in the developed world. It’s a shameful and heartbreaking statistic.
But the reason I raise this is because one of this government’s promises, in a long list of lofty promises.. was zero suicides.
Zero. None. That was their goal.
Not only that, they were going to fix mental health.
I’m not sure whereabouts the mental health part got ignored in trying to legalise cannabis, but adding cannabis to the mix in a country awash with mental health issues doesn’t seem like the smartest idea to me.
And then there’s child poverty. They were fixing that too.
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