Rehabilitation centers in New York City are sunk as if they are a wave higher than the weeds higher than addiction

The city’s pharmaceutical operators say they see more patients with marijuana since New York The sale of sale From the weeds for entertainment use of adults.

“It is one of the most stupid things that our society has done – they have legislate hemp during the opioid crisis,” said Luke Nasta. President and CEO Camellot consulting to Statin Island, to the position.

Camellot said that 20 % of its patients are addicted, while increasing customers who suffer from abuse associated with marijuana in its external clinics since the state was suppressed.

The publication conducted an interview with three patients who are connected to weeds – who warned against the nightmare who live with them, given the increase in the availability of hemp.

“I know this looks like clichés. It is difficult. But, just say no,” said Delite Dylansi, a 23 -year -old Siru Hills, Brooklyn, residing in the treatment of residential rehabilitation in Camille.

“The negatives outweigh the positives” of the hemp.

“The weeds are the new cigarette. But it is more enjoyable because it can rise,” he said.

“It is a gateway. In the end, it will not make you high anymore, and you will look for something bigger. It tears families. I can testify to it.”

Shakwan Shannon, 19, said he had smoked herbs since he was 12 years old.

Shannon said: “I have made me feel invincible,” Shannon said.

“In the midst of my teeth, I had sharp, ready to ignite it, ready to smoke. I was smoking when I woke up. I will not eat all day without smoking,” said Shannon, a resident of Statin Island, who was more than a month.

He said he would get a stoning on Doobies to the point that “I forgot who you were.”

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Chinese Bokner, 20, said that in rehabilitation as an alternative to spending time in prison for drug abuse work.

Ultimately, he mixed his amount with opioid materials and other “high chase” and initially used grass as a mechanism for adaptation.

“I have separated from myself and reality. I became a person looking for chaos,” said Bokner of Flatbush, Brooklyn.

“I became numb. It was a long dark path … I started to lose my mind.”

The three indicated that POT is now easier than ever, including even the most powerful hashish, as it comes from licensed and unlicensed stores including local Delis and not only from street dealers.

“I see many things that happen before. Local stores sell marijuana,” Shannon said.

He said that there is more than the flavor hemp that attracts young people, and the herbs that can be reached “more powerful” than what was most available before.

The addicts said that the rationing had led to the removal of herbal stigma in the eyes of society-apparently giving the green light to the fire as well.

There are now 444 licensed stores in the state, or nearly half in the five city in the city.

“You no longer have to hide it anymore,” Shannon said.

Baknner described the legalization of the sale of cannabis as a “dual -edge sword.”

He said about the bowl: “It is absent from the brain.”

Dylasi said he consumed marijuana in 14 years to deal with personality disorder and later mixed it with euphoria. Meanwhile, his mother struggled with drug addiction.

He was in rehabilitation three times earlier.

“It is extremely difficult to stop as soon as you start. Now, we have easy access to it. There is a dispensary at every corner in New York. I got Delis Cashing Stamps (for hemp),” Dylansi said.

He said he sees more destiny in the city after the pole.

“Poilizers are thick there,” Dylasi said.

A new federal study shows that there 11 million Hemp users in the United States only more than a few years, after 24 states including New York hemp for entertainment and 40 states for medical use.

The percentage of Americans ranging from 12 years older or older than 19 % increased, or 53.2 million, in 2021 to 22.3 %, or to 64.2 million, in 2024, a national survey on drug use and health.

The percentage of the United States population between 26 years or larger than 17.3 % or 38.2 million people increased in 2021 to 21.7 % or 49.3 million people in 2024.

Almost a quarter of adults in New York City, between the ages of 21 years or old Mental health New York Residents Report.

The same report said that 15 % of the city’s public school students used marijuana that year.

Tamara Levin, clinical director of Camilot on Statin Island, said that pushing supporters to legitimize marijuana “reduced the risks.”

“Marijuana causes addiction. It causes many issues,” Levin said.

“The perception is that it is legal, it’s okay. But for some people, it destroys their lives.”

The effect of cannabis on the youth’s brain is among the reasons New York Medical Association Decompression of legalization.

Lawyers of the city in the city, now on the margin in terms of prosecution since the marijuana has been legalized, are now monitoring ill -treatment.

“Marijuana, like any drug, legal or illegal, has the ability to use and abuse them for harmful effects,” Statin Island Da Michael McMahon said in a statement.

“As a co -chair of the Statten Island Ventanil and an overdose, I know that addiction comes in many forms and I believe a firm belief that it is now time to increase the failure to reduce funding for our town treatment providers.”