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A Legal Appraisal of “Njaga” Cannabis and Associated Medicinal Herbs in Uganda PDF

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''Cannabis is a drug plant. People use the dried leaves, seed oil, and other parts of the cannabis plant for recreational and medicinal purposes. It can have a pleasurable effect and may soothe the symptoms of various conditions, such as chronic pain. It is prudent to say that the first written record of the plant consumption and growing is in South Africa. Jan van Riebeeck, who ordered officers of the Voorman to purchase "daccha" in Natal for trade with the Khoikhoi. The Dutch East India Company attempted to establish a monopoly on its sale, and to that end prohibited cultivation of the plant by Cape settlers from 1680. However, the ready availability of cannabis in the wild and through trade with indigenous peoples meant that there was little profit to be made. Consequently, the prohibition was lifted in 1700. Over 10 countries have now legalized marijuana, these include, Lesotho. The high-altitude, landlocked kingdom encircled by South Africa, was the first country in the continent to legalize medicinal cultivation of weed in 2017, South Africa, Netherlands, Canada, Colombia, United States, Rwanda, Morocco.

Interestingly Njaja (cannabis) and Mirra (khat), although designated as noncommercial herbs, there use both medically and economically cannot be underestimated, neighboring countries like Kenya and Ethiopia have actually delegalized their trade, and have adopted an open policy for khat as a very major source of economic production, by way of comparison khat as a source of income in Ethiopia and Kenya beats all our exports combined. It’s also prudent to note that where tea grows khat will easily grow, in fact several planes ferry khat on daily basis to Mogadishu and Kenya on average earns about to there million dollars out of khat. 

If we are to argue in terms of the level of intoxication it can be argued that one beer bottle is equivalent to several kilograms (which would be several sacks full) of Cannabis.

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