NIGERIA!!SMOKER DISAGREES WITH POSSIBLE HEMP LEGISLATION

NIGERIA!!SMOKER DISAGREES WITH POSSIBLE HEMP LEGISLATION

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU,LAGOS,NIGERIA...

A Chronic smoker of the famed tobacco incarnate ,Indian hemp has urged stakeholders  in Nigeria not to even think of legislating the usage of indian hemp especially as it has become known globally of the dearth of leadership in Nigeria...

In a chart with The News office Desk of the E.N.M.Paedia Express Multimedia Group of Lagos,Nigeria ,an impeccable source said that things will get from bad to worse under the current leadership style in the land if Indian hemp were to be legalized in Nigeria..

Though he paid tributes to those nation state who have adopted this forms of legislations but was nonetheless quick to add that it was difficult to do this now in Nigeria due to the current bad behavioral pattern of the nation's leaders in public space ...

He warned that if Nigeria  that was known for corruption globally now does goes ahead and legislate indian hemp in its polity  then he was afraid that this was going to throw the nation into a chaos it will not recover from....

The legality of cannabis for medical and recreational use varies by country, in terms of its possession, distribution, and cultivation, and (in regards to medical) how it can be consumed and what medical conditions it can be used for. These policies in most countries are regulated by the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs that was ratified in 1961, along with the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances.^[1][2]
The use of cannabis for recreational purposes is prohibited in most countries; however, many have adopted a policy of decriminalization to make simple possession a non-criminal offense (often similar to a minor traffic violation). Others have much more severe penalties such as some Asian and Middle Eastern countries where possession of even small amounts is punished by imprisonment for several years.^[3] Countries that have legalized recreational cannabis are Canada, Georgia, South Africa, and Uruguay, plus 11 states, 2 territories, and the District of Columbia in the United States and the Australian Capital Territory in Australia. Legality varies in these countries and subnational jurisdictions when it comes to commercial sale. A policy of limited enforcement has also been adopted in many countries, in particular the Netherlands where the sale of cannabis is tolerated at licensed coffeeshops.^[4]
Countries that have legalized the medical use of cannabis include Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Lithuania, Luxembourg, North Macedonia, Norway, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Portugal, Poland, Switzerland, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and Zambia. Others have more restrictive laws that only allow the use of certain cannabis-derived pharmaceutical drugs, such as Sativex, Marinol, or Epidiolex.^[5] In the United States, 33 states and the District of Columbia have legalized the medical use of cannabis, but at the federal level its use remains prohibited for any purpose.^[6]

Indian hemp, also called Hemp Dogbane, (species Apocynum cannabinum), North American plant of the dogbane family Apocynaceae (order Gentianales). It is a branched perennial that grows up to 1.5 m (5 feet) tall and has smooth opposite leaves and small greenish white flowers. Indians used the fibres from the stem to make bags, mats, nets, and cordage. Its milky juice, or latex, yields rubber, and the dried roots of Indian hemp and a related plant (A. androsoemifolium) make a drug that acts as a heart stimulant. True hemp (Cannabis sativa) is sometimes called indian hemp

Sclerenchyma, in plants, support tissue composed of any of various kinds of hard woody cells. Mature sclerenchyma cells are usually dead cells that have heavily thickened secondary walls containing lignin. The cells are rigid and nonstretchable and are usually found in nongrowing regions of plant bodies, such as the bark or mature stems. Sclerenchyma is one of the three types of ground, or fundamental, tissue in plants; the other two types are parenchyma (living thin-walled tissue) and collenchyma (living support tissue with irregular walls). Sclerenchyma cells occur in many different shapes and sizes, but two main types occur: fibres and sclereids.