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India: Teenagers in Mumbai are getting cannabis home-delivered Dilnaz Boga Daily News and Analysis Monday 04 Jun 2012 "Soon, she graduated to cigarettes, and now she's hooked to cannabis. She gets aggressive if she doesn't get her fix," says her mother. Living in a joint family, the addict, a board topper, now secures only average grades. "With policemen saying in newspapers that using cannabis isn't a serious offence, what do you expect?" asks the worried parent. The teenager used to take money from her parents to go to Barista, but would use it to buy cannabis. "We thought she was getting coal and flavours home-delivered for the hookah, but it was actually cannabis," she adds. The teenager's older friends are also a part of the supply chain. The mother says, "Her professors know about this. Everyone knows even the watchmen are involved. I'm trying to speak to her college authorities but we need help from the police and society too. More awareness is needed." Psychiatrist Dr Harish Shetty says that 80% of the children he has tested are cannabis users. "They are aged 14 and above. It is difficult to detect these cases as cannabis is easily consumed. Unfortunately, parents are in denial. They need to get together with our society to take a stand against this issue," he says. Doctors say, with parents providing significantly large amounts of money to their children, their access to such drugs has increased. Shetty adds, "Despite the fact that 12 government agencies are in charge of monitoring the drug menace, no one is being held accountable. There have hardly been any hauls. I've come across cases where drugs are being delivered to people's homes." Teenagers, right from the best schools in Mumbai to engineering colleges, are using cannabis. "This is the 'in thing'. There is peer pressure, the kids want to look cool and fit in," says a parent of another cannabis user. "We need awareness programmes to highlight the negative and long-term effects of weed. I didn't even know what cannabis looked like until I found it stashed in my child's room." http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_teenagers-in-mumbai-are-getting-cannabis-home-delivered_1697812
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