Argument 6: They say… dagga is a safe or ‘soft’ drug, but…
Perhaps when compared to a substance like heroin dagga may seem less severe (you don’t have to put a needle in your arm to use it), but dagga is deadly nonetheless.
Response F –
The future of our learners will be destroyed. The country will be full of criminals made by this drug. The number of rapists will increase. More number of street kids.
More uneducated people, which will make this country more [worse] than it is. The number of mad people will increase.?
USA – FDA Warns Marijuana Companies Marketing Unproven Cancer Products
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) issued warning letters to four companies illegally selling products online that claim to prevent, diagnose, treat, or cure cancer without evidence to support these outcomes.
Canada – Smoking Cannabis Does Make People More Violent
?Cannabis users are more likely to commit violent crime pioneering research by five researchers from institutes based in Montreal, Canada has shown.
Argument 7: They say… a lot about sugar, but…
Sugar may be bad for us and may be at the root of certain ailments and illnesses (we have no problem accepting this as fact and should perhaps even pay closer attention to our own sugar intake), but sugar is by no stretch of the imagination comparable to an illegal drug like dagga.
Response G –
?Learners are smoking dagga before they go to class in the morning. They are high and cause major problems in class. Dagga then leads to stronger drugs.
Response H – Constantia Park, Gauteng
The reality is that they lose any possibility of a valuable life or future as drugs – any drug including dagga causes some kind of dependency. Dagga usage causes physical, mental and emotional behavioural changes.
