Jakumo:


Alcohol is HIGHLY intoxicating and causes more road accident deaths annually than all other factors combined, yet alcohol is legal to buy and sell in all non-fundamentalist countries. As a drinker of no more than one can of beer a year if at all, I would have no complaints with new nationwide laws banning ALL alcohol as is the case in Islamic countries, especially since the medical applications of alcohol are very few and mostly dubious in efficacy.

The nicotine-laden cigarettes that you so stoutly defend most likely because you are a cigarette addict, directly result in millions of excruciatingly painful deaths worldwide from lung cancer, bronchitis, emphysema, and myriad other seriously life-threatening medical ailments that all manifest in the bodies of cigarette smoking nicotine addicts. As a rabid opponent of nicotine consumption via cigarettes, cigars, or any other vaporizing contraption, I would be delighted to see the introduction of cigarette smoking banks WORLDWIDE, in order to spare the non-smoking public from the risks of inhaling toxic, stinky, and carcinogenic secondhand tobacco smoke.

On the other side of the coin, however, medical marijuana, as the name suggests, contains an entire pharmacological treasure trove whose composition can be varied by selective breeding that results in cannabis strains that are specific to the non-addictive treatment of pain, insomnia, stress, glaucoma, seizures, arthritis, cancer therapy, and appetite loss to name but a handful of clinically proven applications of medical cannabis.

As a person whose thoughts and priorities are guided by common sense and pragmatism, I join Ondo State Governor Arakunrin Barrister Rotimi Akeredolu SAN, lawmaker Princess Onuoha the Amazon of Okigwe North constituency, and other well-meaning citizens of the world in urging the Nigerian government to END that wasteful and destructive colonial-era prohibition of cannabis, so that this cash crop can be exploited commercially as is done all over Africa today, from Lesotho to Malawi, to Ghana, Uganda, Zambia, and South Africa, among others harvesting dollars by the million with cannabis cultivation under government license.

OldNairalander:
Why destroy someone's home garden?
Cannabis is a very medicinal plant.
Ignorance is a disease in this country

Bar1941:
Onyinye Nwoke, she was trying to develop Abuja just the way Obi developed Anambra.

She was educated enough to read the value and uusefulness of the plant but was ignorant to know what the law says about it,

OldNairalander:
Why destroy someone's home garden?
Cannabis is a very medicinal plant.
Ignorance is a disease in this country

kokaneprodigy:

How many people do you know died as a result of smoking?
Compare with those you know that died from automobile accident?
Then those you know died from alcohol?
Then those you know that were killed By Igbo smoking miscreants?

Keyword here is “you know” don’t go and start pulling unverifiable data for me.

mu2sa2:
Igbo! Igbo!! Igbo!!!
This daughter of evil may even have been badmouthing our dear native land.
Now she's going to be caged in the "zoo" for years and years. She's surely joining the terrorist Nnamdi Kanu in Buhari's gulag.

Jakumo:


Tell us more but without specific details that could be used to trace anyone.

walcruise:
Igbo amaka



Nothing serious guys, she was just developing Abuja as usual

aAK1:
I rest my case o

Jakumo:


For anyone willing to conduct a little online research, a cursory reference to statistical data frees curious readers from the burden of having to be personally acquainted with every person who died of any specified cause. While I do personally know of people who died from alcohol or nicotine addiction-related ailments, it is the published and peer-reviewed STATISTICS documenting millions of tobacco and alcohol-related deaths, that provide the best overview of reality, for those who insist on studying verifiable data.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3880486/

kokaneprodigy:

Answer my question how many do you know?
Y’all will come out to yarn millions have died of as a result of smoking.
When asked how many you know, you’ll enter google and vomit all what you swallowed.

You’ve had personal contacts with those that died as result of alcohol directly or indirectly, same with automobile accident.
But cigarette that’s claimed to have killed billions, you’ll need to google and share link.

inspirator1:
A good lawyer will get her out. She was not caught trading it rather grooming it for personal use

inspirator1:
A good lawyer will get her out. She was not caught trading it rather grooming it for personal use

Bar1941:
Onyinye Nwoke, she was trying to develop Abuja just the way Obi developed Anambra.

She was educated enough to read the value and uusefulness of the plant but was ignorant to know what the law says about it,

Jakumo:


Growing weed OPENLY at home, of all places, in a country where so many people are broke, jobless, and hungry is a recipe for major legal problems. The police LOVE cannabis cases because they can steal and smoke the exhibit for their own pleasure, while at the same time extorting money from the arrested cannabis farmer REPEATEDLY until the farmer has sold every possession they own in life to fund the greedy cops' insatiable demand for bribe money.

Jakumo:


Sadly the law merely calls for the punishment to be allocated in direct proportion to the weight of the cannabis that was seized. This woman's crop is not even dried, so the "wet" weight will quadruple the dry weight. It is doubtful that the NDLEA is going to help the suspect dry the weed in the sun so as to determine its dry weight. They will simply weigh those plants in their newly harvested condition, and file charges accordingly.

A good lawyer should nonetheless be able to reduce the severity of this woman's charges by stressing her personal use of cannabis for medical problems that were not responding to pharmaceutical drugs which are legal but ineffective or simply addictive when used to try and treat such ailments as the pain symptoms the woman described to the arresting officers.

Kingsley10000:


This is Nigeria unfortunately, she will spend few years in jail and spend money for bail
This country is sick

Jakumo:


You have highlighted the paradox of cannabis prohibition. The number of deaths caused annually by alcohol, in terms of liver cirrhosis, overdose mortality, drunk driving, and violent behavior by drunks, numbers in the thousands worldwide. Despite this terrible record of death caused directly or indirectly by alcohol, that nasty poison is readily available and legal to buy over the counter in any quantity and by virtually anyone without restriction.

The death toll inflicted by legally available tobacco is even more alarming. because cigarettes kill people in the thousands annually by way of lung cancer, bronchitis, emphysema, and a host of other deadly ailments all directly caused by nicotine ingestion. Despite this horrifying death toll, cigarettes are legally available everywhere, allowing nicotine addicts to slowly poison themselves to death without any hindrance whatsoever. A single cigarette soaked in water for a few hours yields an EXTREMELY poisonous nicotine solution that can kill a human being if just a tiny amount is added to food or drink and thus accidentally ingested.

Cannabis, unlike highly addictive and toxic alcohol and cigarettes, has been scientifically proven to be enormously beneficial in the treatment of numerous medical conditions ranging from glaucoma eye ailments to pain relief, to cancer symptom alleviation, digestive tract problem resolution, curing insomnia, and other conditions too many to mention.

Yet, despite all the medical benefits of cannabis, it remains illegal and its users continue to be persecuted by overzealous law enforcement stormtroopers, simply because the pharmaceutical industry's powerful lobbyists who twist government policy to suit their greedy objectives, remain hellbent on monopolizing the market in medication supplies, even if that means depriving millions of people the opportunity to be cured cheaply using easily cultivated medical cannabis.

inspirator1:
Truly, you are smart. Some people saw her interview as a mistake but I put it to them, that woman knew what she was doing. She knows that the video will go viral; her reason for the "personal use" stance and feigning of innocence.

I remember sometime in Abuja when I was driving one way because of an emergency. I dodge an incoming vehicle, then swerve to a woman. An officer of the law was close by, I saw him coming like a cock trailing a hen. If I had wanted to escape, I would have done so but I stopped to help the woman. My accent gave me out to the woman; who insisted on damages to her goods (Fishes) and health. As I was pleading with her, the police accosted me, took me to their station. It was that day I knew that police stations have maternity or hospital that they work with in such situations. The arranged the woman instantly and took her to the hospital, detained me. While I was seated, the officer came in with outrageous bill. Omo! I was like, "can I see the woman", They agreed. We got to the hospital, met the woman acting up. In my courtesy, I still said sorry to her. Turned to the nurse on duty and asked her why the bill. The arrogant nurse ranted her abuse and ended up saying that the conducted an x-tray on the woman.

At this point, I told the officer that I am not paying the bills because this hospital does not have such facilities to foister such bill on me, that we should head to court. Unknown to the nurse, my boys don show for the hospital . Told her that they will come back for the insult on me.

Now to the station, the officers has already drafted a statement for me and asked me to read through cum checked out the form the filled. I perused the form, told them that I am learned and will love to write my statement by myself. By the way, I am not a Christian, I told the officer that filled the form for me. One of the officers was like, "You no get mark for forehead nah, so wetin you be"?. I replied, "an atheist". The officer shifted immediately, the other male officer asked, "na wetin"? She replied, "Him say na babalawo im dey go". I nearly burst for laugh, when I knew an officer of the Nigeria Police Force does not know what being an atheist is. I just crossed my legs and spread my palms, muttering some useless words

Now to the main gist, which made me believed that the woman knows what she is doing is this. When I wanted to write my statement. I implicated the woman for not taking the pedestrian bridge closeby on such a busy road, indicted the police for intimidation, character assassination and running a corrupt syndicate with the hospital. Then pleaded for leniency, stating my reasons for the emergency. The officer didn't read through, she just filed it. When the IPO my case was handed to, ask to see my file read my statement. He shouted and asked, "Who wrote this"? The officer pointed at me. The IPO was mad with his officers and asked if they knew what I did? That should this have gotten to the court, that they are finished. He turned to me and asked, "Who are you"? I identified myself and said that my lawyer is in the station for the court proceedings. Finally, finally IPO asked us to carry our wahala and go.

Now to the woman. She asked what will happen to her; her goods and health. IPO said to her "To go treat herself, why she no gree collect the money the man be give her before"? I walked up to her and told her point blank, in the presence of her people wey don gather to attack me and said "You loose, sorry I can't do anything again since you are sound and walking".

Seriously, I would have love to see how this case goes; if only our enforcementagencies updates citizens on cases.