The Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, has urged the Muhammadu Buhari-led government to jettison traditional orientation that states that cannabis is a “devil’s plant”.
He said, “The planet earth has a constant period of darkness and light every 24 hours which we call night and day, in like manner, just like every other crop or plant, Cannabis Sativa has both CBD and THC content which we can put it to good and bad use. “My visit to Thailand was an eye-opener. We saw forest reserve used in the past to cultivate and process hard drugs transformed to be meaningfully utilised in an environmentally-friendly way for healthy ventures. We saw people previously sold to hard drugs engaged in legitimate business ventures.
He explained that in 2019, the global market of cannabis was put at $52.8 billion and that the market forecast is an average 14.5% increase from year 2020 to reach $103.9 billion by 2024. In the build-up to the 2019 presidential poll, Omoyele Sowore, candidate of the African Action Congress , had said Nigeria will export marijuana if he gets elected as president of the country.
RotimiAkeredolu Are you not a state on your own? Can't you legislate amd get it done at the state level. Na real feudal system we dey run
RotimiAkeredolu Is this the problem we're facing? They don't talk about how to end insecurity, or warn fulani herders Killing Innocent Nigerians, they are here talking about cannabis. When will this Governors think like human being? All we want is Biafra and Oduduwa Nation.
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