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Jamaican officials have launched a campaign that's specifically designed to promote public education around marijuana—an attempt to modernize how residents get information about cannabis. The centerpiece of the "Good Ganja Sense" campaign is a new website that provides resources and articles on marijuana's health impacts and benefits, seeks to debunk myths about cannabis and features multimedia education materials like this video with an exceptionally catchy jingle: The Ministry of Health and Wellness officially rolled out the site on Monday. The head of that department, Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn, said in a press release that it contains "several resources that will certainly stimulate more talk about ganja." "The pages give a background on the campaign, links to media items and also connect directly to the website of the National Council on Drug Abuse," she said. "It has a contact form too, so you can get in touch with the 'Good Ganja' team." "We are in a digital world where people are finding information for themselves, and the information may be false or it very well may be true, depending on where they go," Cuthbert-Flynn said. "Ganja will no longer be underpinned by what has been passed down through oral traditions and old tales, but fact-based information that is now available at the fingertips." View this post on Instagram A post shared by National Council on Drug Abuse (@drugfreeja) As part of that effort to deliver facts on cannabis issues, the new site features a myth-busting section that debunks notions that marijuana use makes people lazy, that it lowers sperm count, that it leads people to seek out more dangerous drugs and more. One section focuses on whether marijuana can cause fatal overdoses, citing a Drug Enforcement Administration fact sheet that reports that no cannabis-causes overdose death has ever been reported. "Thanks,…

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Source : Jamaican Government Launches 'Good Ganja Sense' Campaign To Debunk Marijuana Myths

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