Even in the United States, the loudest opponents to the legalization of cannabis were law enforcement agents who derived massive financial benefits from arresting weed smokers and sellers, because such police forces were permitted by law to confiscate and sell property owned by arrested cannabis marketers and consumers. From vehicles to cash to houses, million-dollar fortunes became the property of police departments across the USA, by way of those forfeiture laws.

Similarly, privately owned jails prospered from the intake of millions of largely minority prisoners locked up under the tyranny of anti-cannabis laws, and among those prisoners, blacks and Latinos were disproportionately victimized and deprived of their liberty for years and even decades, sometimes over a single joint of cannabis smoked in order to get a good night's sleep.

Now that a long-overdue wave of cannabis legalization is sweeping the USA and the world at large, all the fear-mongering scare tactics desperately deployed to retain those draconian anti-cannabis laws, have evaporated like darkness at the break of dawn. Now that cannabis has been legalized in numerous states, the fortunes being reaped are by LEGAL companies supplying a highly beneficial and natural product - medical cannabis, to millions of grateful users no longer compelled to buy weed from criminals that often poison the weed with deadly chemicals.

Buba Maruwa, current head of Nigeria's NDLEA drug persecution agency, commands a multi-million dollar budget that is in large part devoted to apprehending weed-growers, sellers, and users, in order to destroy their lives and seize their property, just as was the case until very recently over much of America. As other writers under this topic have correctly noted, America's legalization of medical cannabis did NOT cause the heavens to fall and flood the streets with deranged criminals.

On the contrary, cannabis legalization in America brought real tangible relief to millions of people with medical conditions ranging from glaucoma, appetite loss, various cancers, Alzheimer’s disease, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and diabetes, to name but a few of the ailments treatable with that wondrous plant called cannabis. Concurrently, a new generation of cannabis BILLIONAIRES is being minted in the USA, Europe, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, Lesotho, Ghana, and Jamaica, among other nations, as entrepreneurs establish companies dedicated to the cultivation, processing, marketing, and export of high-grade cannabis and its numerous extracts.

Nigeria's time has come, to reap the gigantic medical and financial rewards of legalized medical cannabis, just as is the case in all those other enlightened nations listed above. Let the 2020 Nigerian Cannabis Control Legislation sail through its final readings before Nigeria's esteemed lawmakers, so that this new era of prosperity and common sense medical transformation, can commence.

God bless Nigeria. God bless President Buhari, and may his judgment be guided by wisdom, and medical FACT, rather than by outdated innuendo, and irrational fear-mongering of the sort parroted by Buba Marwa, a man reaping so much financial gain, from the misery of a nation, and the deprivation of her citizens from myriad medical benefits attainable with treatment by medical marijuana and its extracts.

So what is Nigeria now

Just say you will not get as much money from stealing people's items in the name of repossession.

Jwonder:
That’s a lie!
Cannabis has been legalized in so many countries and they are all doing perfectly fine, there’s so many health benefits of cannabis and it would generate more money for Nigeria through tax and we could also export it.

Which of those countries is as corrupt as Nigeria. Don't start things you cannot end nor control.

Nigeria can hardly renovate buildings not to talk about controlling drug use.

Smoking of Canabis is dangerous to your health.

adenigga:

https://punchng.com/If-cannabis-is-legalised-Nigeria-becoming-den-of-junkies-criminals–Marwa

Those that don't even burn crushed leaves do the most...weed will bring peace in Naija...cos all go be one love.

The ironical part of this now is that this so called NDLEA slave now might be a cannabis consumer and customer.
Hypocrisy everywhere.
Even his children self may be junkies.

marwa wan talk say e no dey blah!

witworth:
The ironical part of this now is that this so called NDLEA slave now might be a cannabis consumer and customer.
Hypocrisy everywhere.
Even his children self may be junkies.

As a retired military man, Buba Marwa has most certainly used and enjoyed cannabis in the past, and probably right up till the present. That will not stop him from seeking to imprison his fellow users of this highly beneficial plant, and impound their property and bank accounts, simply because of the huge financial gain he and his organization stand to reap for as long as Nigeria's outdated cannabis prohibition persists.

adenigga:

https://punchng.com/If-cannabis-is-legalised-Nigeria-becoming-den-of-junkies-criminals–Marwa

The only problem i see there is that once it is legalize, real smokers will abuse it, it is not until you wrap it before it can be useful.

post=102101379:

With all these salient and important points Marwa has given, and if there is no regulatory body that will do a very good job in regulating how what they proposed will be carried out, Mr Marwa has made a very very good point in all these.

In as much as using MaryJay for medications will bring huge profits and revenue to our national treasury, we believe there is time for everything.
85% of Nigerian youths will use this drugs for some negative things, only few of igbo smokers smoke it to reason well, the rest go into all evil vices after getting high af!
First things first.
We should truly not take a step forward and 10 steps backwards, all in the name of making money!

We Rise!

you don ever smoke weed before ?

What is the difference now...when the brothers has taken over criminally everywhere

That's a big lie..
Its been legalize in SA
Why have everyone not become addicted?

For ur foolish mind u get sense pass America way legalize am

adenigga:

https://punchng.com/If-cannabis-is-legalised-Nigeria-becoming-den-of-junkies-criminals–Marwa

Better to be a den of junkies than a den of terrorists and idiots. A lot of young adults are queuing to committing suicide due to state of the nation. Since you don't have any solution to unemployment. Give them weed to supress the tension and anxiety.

GeneralPula:
Nope.

There will be alot of reasonable people. People will be able to think the way they’re suppose to..


99% of world reasonable people smokes..

Smoking isn’t what will make you become a Junkie, your personal attitude is what will make you a junkie..

This isn't just about smoking. It is about cerebral intoxication.

As for been able to think, reverse is the case. Our mind is 100% capable of thinking without any need for drug enhancement.
Addicts say all this trash as a justification for using intoxicating drugs.

Initially i thought this man had sense! So California and some states in the US that has legalized it does not have sense abi? This idiot spurting rubbish might even be a secret use too! I have been smoking weed for 20 years now, why haven't i turned in to a junkie yet? If you like legalize or dont legalize it, i will still get my weed from the street

Little wonder nairaland is field with people who think upside down.


This tread has shown that majority of nairalanders are weed addicts

lastempero:

It's not even a drug bro, Netherlands and most part of the world is reaping billions yearly from that plant and we are not smarter than them. All we need is set up a good regulatory body and enjoy our land and foreign exchange will be knocking on our door.

At the bolded, you've said it all sir.

GENES11S:
Little wonder nairaland is field with people who think upside down.


This tread has shown that majority of nairalanders are weed addicts

Kindly go back to drinking your beer and whisky sir, but please don't get behind the wheel of your car and kill innocent road users when you are drunk, again.

Instead of you to put young people with progressive ideas as govt leaders, you used old men that the world has left behind.

Does this idiot realise that the industry is now billions of dollars Worth and many African countries are scrambling to be the export hub?

princewarri1985:
Initially i thought this man had sense! So California and some states in the US that has legalized it does not have sense abi? This idiot spurting rubbish might even be a secret use too! I have been smoking weed for 20 years now, why haven't i turned in to a junkie yet? If you like legalize or dont legalize it, i will still get my weed from the street

If at all possible, commission a TRUSTED grower to plant on your behalf, with the instruction NEVER to apply any chemicals. The biggest danger facing weed consumers, is the addition of chemicals by criminal growers, either during the cultivation process when poisonous chemicals are used to control termites, or worse, after harvest, when deadly additives that can prove lethal, are added to increase the potency of low-quality weed.

Grow your own, to optimize your weed smoking safety.

Jakumo:


Kindly go back to drinking your beer and whisky sir, but please don't get behind the wheel of your car and kill innocent road users when you are drunk, again.

Grow up for the sake of your parents.

A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son brings grief to his mother. Have a nice life.

GENES11S:


Grow up for the sake of your parents.

Thank you daddy ologogoro. I will follow your advice to the letter because I worship drunkards.

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https://punchng.com/If-cannabis-is-legalised-Nigeria-becoming-den-of-junkies-criminals–Marwa

What's the state of this country now�?

I feel the reason for the delay in legalization of cannabis is just so they can keep reselling the seized merchandise and also to keep the seized 90bn.

marijuana has medicinal uses.Its a pity many only know about smoking it which is harmful to the body.

God created it not for smoking I guess.

SmellySperm:
Weed is from the earth. God created it for us to take advantage of it.
Use it responsibly

KAHBOOM:
Mr man will u sharap there

Did America and other foreign country that legalized it turn to a den of criminals and junkies?

Legalize it joor and watch Nigeria turn to a den of happy,wise pipu with little worries.

The overadvertised countries: UK, Canada and USA are a den of criminals though you won't believe it due to colonial brainwashing. Those governments legalizing that stuff was a huge mistake. There's more crime in America than in Nigeria though you won't believe it.

GENES11S:


This isn't just about smoking. It is about cerebral intoxication.

As for been able to think, reverse is the case. Our mind is 100% capable of thinking without any need for drug enhancement.
Addicts say all this trash as a justification for using intoxicating drugs.

Weed isn’t a DRUG..

* Cannabis sativa *

Now go to google and check it out.