By Newsbreak Senior Producer Taresh Harreeparshad - Experts are concerned about a link in poor mental health among young South Africans who use both cannabis and vapes. Head of the School of Health Systems and Public Health at the University of Pretoria Professor Olalekan Ayo-Yusuf recently presented a paper where he showed how cannabis-related psychiatric admissions among adolescents have more than doubled since 2017, coinciding with cannabis decriminalisation and the surge in vaping. Prof. explains how this complex interception could lead to a mental health crisis among youth...

<p>By Newsbreak Senior Producer Taresh Harreeparshad - Experts are concerned about a link in poor mental health among young South Africans who use both cannabis and vapes. Head of the School of Health Systems and Public Health at the University of Pretoria Professor Olalekan Ayo-Yusuf recently presented a paper where he showed how cannabis-related psychiatric admissions among adolescents have more than doubled since 2017, coinciding with cannabis decriminalisation and the surge in vaping. Prof. explains how this complex interception could lead to a mental health crisis among youth...</p>

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