Hong Kong’s commissioner for narcotics has attributed a 50 per cent surge in young people using cannabis to users thinking the drug is not harmful because of legalisation overseas.Despite a 17 per cent reduction last year in the overall number of drug abusers in the city compared with 2018, the tally for cannabis was on the rise, according to the Action Committee Against Narcotics, which advises the government on drugs policy.In 2019, 506 Hongkongers were taking the recreational drug, up 5 per…
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