Ngo Calls For Action Against Youth Drug Culture

Non-governmental organisation, World Changers Candidate WCC is calling on churches, parents, and communities to unite and take action against the normalisation of drug culture among young people.

This as tomorrow, Easter Sunday, coincides with the globally recognised Four-Twenty phenomenon, a day synonymous with cannabis celebration.

The organisations chairperson Lucas Mahlakgane says that cannabis users celebrate the day on the 20th of April.

Mahlakgane says they highlight campaigns throughout the year on days they know escalate the use of drugs, such as international day of Anti-Drug use and illicit trafficking which happens on the 26th of June and similarly, the 20th of April is known as the Four-Twenty phenomena.

This is like a culture that started in the United States of America in the 70s where learners from a certain college used to meet every day after school at twenty past four to smoke weed. And when South Africa, started legalizing weed, that is when the phenomena came to South Africa.