CANNABIS ISN'T RECOGNISED AS VEGETABLE, SAYS MINISTER
The deputy minister of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Dr Hamisi Kigwangala (pictured), said in the Parliament as he was responding to a supplementary question from Bukoba Urban MP Wilfred Lwakatare (Chadema), who wanted to know if the government was aware of some tribes in the country that were traditionally using marijuana as vegetable.
Dodoma. The government yesterday said it did not recognise cannabis as one of the vegetables in the country and would take stern measures against all communities across the country that held the drug in that regard.
The deputy minister of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Dr Hamisi Kigwangala (pictured), said in the Parliament as he was responding to a supplementary question from Bukoba Urban MP Wilfred Lwakatare (Chadema), who wanted to know if the government was aware of some tribes in the country that were traditionally using marijuana as vegetable.
“I am aware that the government is fighting against the use of cannabis, but in some areas, we have been informed also that after smoking cannabis the youth are working harder than their normal capacity. So, don’t you think that banning of cannabis smoking will derail government efforts on industrialisation by losing such needed extra human power in the crucial sector like agriculture?” he asked.
Responding, Dr Kigwangalla noted that the use of marijuana had multiple physical and mental affects on human beings. “Some of the effects include mental disorder, madness and destruction of female and male hormones, but also hardening of arteries,” he explained.
Furthermore, Dr Kigwangalla explained that cannabis had at least 113 harmful chemicals, the most dangerous being Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). “Effects of public smoking of cannabis are very wide as it similarly affects secondary smokers - unintentionally inhaling the smoke,” he said.
Dr Kigwangalla insisted that the government would continuing with is crackdown mission on drug use and those found cultivating, peddling and using cannabis would be held accountable as it was one among the dangerous illicit drugs. Cannabis has long been used for hemp fibre, for hemp oils, for medicinal purposes and as a recreational drug. Industrial hemp products are made from cannabis plants selected to produce fibres.
Dodoma. The government yesterday said it did not recognise cannabis as one of the vegetables in the country and would take stern measures against all communities across the country that held the drug in that regard.
The deputy minister of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Dr Hamisi Kigwangala (pictured), said in the Parliament as he was responding to a supplementary question from Bukoba Urban MP Wilfred Lwakatare (Chadema), who wanted to know if the government was aware of some tribes in the country that were traditionally using marijuana as vegetable.
“I am aware that the government is fighting against the use of cannabis, but in some areas, we have been informed also that after smoking cannabis the youth are working harder than their normal capacity. So, don’t you think that banning of cannabis smoking will derail government efforts on industrialisation by losing such needed extra human power in the crucial sector like agriculture?” he asked.
Responding, Dr Kigwangalla noted that the use of marijuana had multiple physical and mental affects on human beings. “Some of the effects include mental disorder, madness and destruction of female and male hormones, but also hardening of arteries,” he explained.
Furthermore, Dr Kigwangalla explained that cannabis had at least 113 harmful chemicals, the most dangerous being Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). “Effects of public smoking of cannabis are very wide as it similarly affects secondary smokers - unintentionally inhaling the smoke,” he said.
Dr Kigwangalla insisted that the government would continuing with is crackdown mission on drug use and those found cultivating, peddling and using cannabis would be held accountable as it was one among the dangerous illicit drugs. Cannabis has long been used for hemp fibre, for hemp oils, for medicinal purposes and as a recreational drug. Industrial hemp products are made from cannabis plants selected to produce fibres.
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