CYECE Calls Govt, Regulatory Bodies To Rescue Youth In Drug, Substance Abuse

Sativa: another type of canabis being smoked
among youth 

Centre for Youth Empowerment and Civic Education (CYECE), has called on Government and its enforcement agencies to strengthen regulations of drugs and substance in order to protect youth from accessing drugs and substance easily and cheaply like it is the case now.

Executive Directors CYECE, Lucky Mbewe said in an interview following concerns that drug abuse are common among the youth in the country and the legal enforcers still have no capacity to contain the problem. 

Mbewe observe that as the result of the weakening enforcement of regulations on alcohol, substance and drug use, it is common to see young people easily access and afford drugs including Marijuana and that sometimes they openly use these in the public and entertainment places.

He expressed concern over Government silence on excessive use of alcohol and smoking of tobacco and Marijuana among young people and therefore underlined that these are some of the challenges that must be carefully and urgently to looked at.

“We want to call upon the Government especially also minister responsible and those in control in terms of regulation of smoking alcohol and drug abuse that we need to put in place strong measures that will help us to contain the problem. 

If it is the issue of smoking itself, to date a lot of young people are engaged in smoking and it is a big problem. And most of them are getting mad every day because of excessive use of those drugs. These are some of the issues we need to talk about.” He said 

“So we are appealing to the Government and Minister responsible for Youth to come out and rescue a lot of young people that are getting lost each and every day due to smoking of Indian hemp and substance abuse so much so that we have a better Malawian in future”