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On cannabis, we should be pressing the brake… not the gas | Anthony Gatt
Government’s plans to further decriminalise recreational cannabis has been met with resistance. Dr ANTHONY GATT, director of Caritas Malta, outlines why this new approach could end up inadvertently ‘promoting’ a not-entirely harmless drug. He was interviewed on Reno Bugeja Jistaqsi
12 April 2021, 12:50pm
by MaltaToday Staff
Caritas is among a number of professional to have publicly opposed the government’s White Paper on cannabis reform. Can you explain exactly what your objections are?
We are worried about three aspects, first and foremost. The first is that the proposed changes may have the indirect, unintentional effect ‘popularising’ the drug. When certain limits are removed, the public perception of cannabis will also gradually change: especially among adolescents. Already, we are encountering parents whose children are telling them: “Ma, Pa, why are you worrying? Cannabis is harmless,
What connects this diverse group of persons: Julius Caesar, Fyodor Dostoevsky, the singer Prince, Susan Boyle and US Chief Justice John Roberts? They have all experienced one of the most misunderstood, maligned and stigmatising medical conditions – epilepsy.
Persons with epilepsy have been unfairly singled out, prosecuted and discriminated by various cultures and societies across the millennia. Persons with epilepsy have been and still are unjustly perceived as being possessed by magic or supernatural power, despite it being so common. It affects around one per cent of the population worldwide, across all ages.
This means that around 4,000 persons in Malta have epilepsy. One cannot stress enough that a person is not ‘epileptic’ or ‘suffers from epilepsy’, since such terms reinforce the stigmatisation.