Noticeable ‘uptick of drug use’ in VI youths - Skelton-Cline
Making the claims on the Thursday, April 1, 2021, edition of his ZBVI 780am radio show, Mr Cline claimed several others in the VI are also noticing the trend.
VI has tools to handle issue – Skelton-Cline
“We are not known to be drug users but… I am seeing and others are noticing an uptick amongst our young people with drug use.”
Mr Skelton-Cline continued, “It starts with marijuana, starts with the little weed and the ganja but then it graduates and I am very concerned with the direction of this trend.”
The man of the cloth related that while the VI is experiencing difficult days, the territory has the tools to navigate its way towards a better and healthier society.
“It’s going to require more than any one government, more than any one term… it's going to require more than the church,” he said.
Community effort to address subject
Calling for the community to come together and address the issue, he said “all of us are going to have to make it a concerted and targeted and intentional effort, at expending energies to hold back the tide of what I'm seeing happening to us.”
While Mr Skelton-Cline promised to delve into the topic during future episodes of his radio talk show, he did not provide any solid research or statistics to back the claims.
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29 Responses to “Noticeable ‘uptick of drug use’ in VI youths - Skelton-Cline ”
With all of the drug-related arrests and convictions, filling up of prison stories etc. published in our media, what solid research or statistics we need to support a problem that is being identified and described as growing ("upticking") ?
WITHOUT FEAR OF ANYTHING NOT EVEN DYING AND IT AIN'T JUST HAPPENING AND ITS NO SECRET
A catch all word which has been used to divide many communities including our own persecution of peaceful citizens with far flung claims that never materialized except for the damage of incarceration.
Caribbean people from our history coming out of Africa love bush for healing. Bush tea anything that is natural we are taught to use for health benefits.
Traditionally we do not have a drinking culture nor snort, or inject dangerous substances that are popular and available to folks abroad.
If we’re going to talk about “drugs” don’t play war on drugs games and be specific.
The drugs people in the states are into nowadays originally come from the pharmacy..... the drugs people are hooked on and overdosing on stems from the pharmaceutical industry.
what are we really talking about? Never mind some of the prescription medication aka drugs people are taking to find health has more side effects than you can shake a stick at.
And if people are so worried about the young adults taking adulterated herbs insist SOMEONE to get a move on the cannabis act 2020 that there may be clean locally grown therapeutic medicine available that is also further tested for quality
It is also a fact that cannabis is a gate way drugs.
PEOPLE SLOWLY BUT SURELY THERE IS AN INCREASE OF THE USE OF CRACK COCAINE, PURE COCAINE AND OTHER HARD ADDICTIVE DRUGS BY TEENAGERS AND YOUNG PEOPLE.
Stop comparing and concentrate about your own.
They are caught with drug, drug residue and paraphernalia in their possession and their parents and relatives are still in denial.
People stop putting your heads in the sand like Ostrich.
It is the same way you all were denying the fact about the drug activities in the BVIs and BVISLANDERS involvement and keep saying is island people.
How many BVislanders that has been arrested overseas for large quantities of drugs, plus how many that has been deported from the U.S.A in relation to Drugs? Because of your population, it is a lot.
The best that some of you can Blog and say is free the weed.
FOR GOD SAKE STOP PUTTING YOUR HEADS IN THE SAND AS OSTRICH.
Marijuana is an herb not a drug!