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Annual General Meeting 23 October 2024

October 25, 2024

On the 23 October 2024, CYPSA hosted its Annual General Meeting. The meeting commenced with a short devotion from Matthew 26:7, where all in attendance were encouraged to hold nothing back in serving God and others, but that rather, like the woman with the alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, we should give all that … Read more

Maphumulo School Outreach September 2024

October 1, 2024

Western Cape Outreach 19 – 28 September

October 1, 2024

Open Letter to Parliament – Stop the BELA Bill

May 15, 2024

The situation is critical. Our country’s youth, once full of hope and ambition, are now facing grave challenges. They are losing their lives to drugs, disease, and hunger on the streets. Their aspirations of becoming educators, legal professionals, medical doctors, or nurses have been crushed.

Development of an anxiety disorder following an emergency department visit due to dagga use: a population-based cohort study

April 18, 2024

The study looked at whether using dagga is linked to seeking medical help for anxiety. Researchers checked health records from Ontario, Canada, between 2008 and 2019. They focused on people who hadn’t gone to the doctor for anxiety before and compared those who went to the emergency room (ER) for dagga-related reasons to those who … Read more

Dagga use linked to higher risk of heart attack and stroke – Journal of the American Heart Association

April 18, 2024

The study looked at how using dagga might affect people’s hearts in different groups of people. They looked at data from 2016 to 2020 from a survey in 27 American states and 2 territories. The survey asked adults aged 18 to 74 about their dagga use and their heart health. Researchers wanted to see if … Read more

CYPSA Outreach to Namibia March 2024

March 16, 2024

CYPSA’s NCOP Presentation | BELA Bill | NCOP Elect Committee on Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture

March 7, 2024

BELA BILL Public Hearings Dates 2024

February 16, 2024

Provincial hearings already completed: KZN, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North-West.

Cannabis for chronic pain: cardiovascular safety in a nationwide Danish study 

February 12, 2024

More and more countries are letting doctors use medical dagga to help people with long-lasting pain. But, using dagga just for fun has been connected to heart problems. That’s why it’s important to check if medical dagga, prescribed by a doctor, is safe. To do this, researchers in Denmark looked at the records of people with long-lasting pain who started using medical dagga between 2018 and 2021. They matched these people with others who were similar in age, gender, type of pain, and also used other pain medicines. They wanted to see if there were more heart problems in those using medical dagga compared to those who didn’t.