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Development of an anxiety disorder following an emergency department visit due to dagga use: a population-based cohort study
The study looked at whether using dagga is linked to seeking medical help for anxiety. Researchers checked health records from Ontario, Canada, between 2008 and 2019. They focused on people who hadn’t gone to the doctor for anxiety before and compared those who went to the emergency room (ER) for dagga-related reasons to those who … Read more
BELA BILL Public Hearings Dates 2024
Provincial hearings already completed: KZN, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North-West.
CYPSA SUBMISSION TO NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PROVINCES: COMMENTS ON CANNABIS FOR PRIVATE PURPOSES BILL
We have grave reservations about the Bill itself, as well as specific provisions of the Bill, despite further amendments having recently been made to the Bill.
BELA Bill – CYPSA’s Written Submission and Points of Concern
Mr E M Nchabeleng MP Chairperson: Select Committee Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture (NationalCouncil of Provinces) For attention: MsNoluthando Skaka Per email: [email protected] Dear Mr E M Nchabeleng MP Comments on the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill [B 2B-2022] (S76) 1.We refer to the invitation for written submissions on the Basic … Read more
How Raffiq Was Helped
I was born in Durban where I was raised by a single mother in a Muslim home. I went through high school as a quiet, reserved boy with low self-confidence. Every afternoon I was sent to Islamic classes to learn and memorize Arabic, with no understanding of what exactly it was that I was memorizing. … Read more
Tshwane Prison Visits
On 12 October 2023 CYPSA reached out to inmates of Tshwane during a drug prevention campaign. CYPSA had a wonderful time bringing hope and alerting the prisoners against the use of drugs.
Submission to Parliament: Comments on Cannabis for Private Purposes Bill [B19 – 2020] –A violation of the principle of the best interests of the child.
The Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services RE: Comments on Cannabis for Private Purposes Bill [B19 – 2020] –A violation of the principle of the best interests of the child. ARTICLE 1 ARTICLE 2 ARTICLE 3 ARTICLE 1 ARTICLE 2 ARTICLE 3 [1]. The Childrens Act 38 of 2005. [2]. Asbridge, M., … Read more
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Umphakathi Okhathazekile (the Concerned Young People of South Africa) is a non-profit organisation which was started by concerned people of South Africa in 2009 and then registered as an NPO in 2010.
The moral decay in our communities caused such great distress to us that we could not keep silent any longer. We have united in taking a stand against the devastation caused by drugs, immorality, HIV/AIDS, human trafficking, crime, prostitution, pornography and abuse, amongst other evils, in all their forms.
Your Eye
The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! (Matthew 6:22-23)
Within this portion, they way we perceive things is being highlighted. To illustrate: two persons can observe how someone is reprimanding another. The one person will find something to criticize; he took to long, he spoke to short, he was to harsh etc. The other person will perceive how this person, because of concern for his brother is opening himself to rejection in the attempt to help and restore the other.
If the light within oneself has turned into darkness, all discernment is lost. Such a person will perceive help as hurt and go around spreading his own darkness through things falsely perceived and convey it as truths.
How great is such darkness when you perceive the hand reaching out to you to help, as an attack! In the end, no one can help such a person. Let us therefore consider the way we look at things.