Dependent cannabis users spending €700 a week

Problematic cannabis users are spending more than €100 a day on the drug and racking up considerable debts, a conference heard yesterday.
Dependent cannabis users spending €700 a week
Sun, 18 Oct, 2015 - 01:00
Cormac O’Keeffe

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.

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