A former Fiji police psychologist says there needs to be more education about the negative impacts of drugs in Fiji schools.
The police in Fiji have made a number of drug confiscation's recently, with seizures of more than 500 dope plants from different farms in Fiji's outlying islands.
However the police say it's disheartening to see that the police efforts of community education has been falling on deaf ears.
La Trobe University Psychologist, and the former psychologist for Fiji police Lorraine Meades says there needs to be more teaching about the physical and psychological impacts of marijuana use at the primary and secondary school levels.
She says at Fiji's psychiatric hospital for example, there's been an increase of young people coming in with first episode psychosis which is directly linked to marijuana use.
"The consequences of all of that just keep manifesting itself so you have a physical and psychological consequences due to the dangerous effects of marijuana and that sort of education needs to be given out."
Psychologist Lorraine Meades says people need to learn that marijuana is not a 'soft' drug and has serious health impacts.
