The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has defended the criminalization of the use of marijuana in Nigeria in contrast to other countries like the US, UK, and Canada.
While defending the criminalization on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, Shadrack Haruna, the Secretary of NDLEA, said: “There is a lot of misconception about decriminalizing the use of drugs.
“You travel to Canada, you travel anywhere, and you say, ‘They’ve decriminalized marijuana or cannabis and we’re using it.
“But of course, you have different species of marijuana and in those countries, they have very good policies; very good enforcement and measurement standards which they have to follow.”
“The species they have, which they say they have decriminalized in some of those countries, are those without Tetrahydrocannabinol, which is the active ingredient that makes one to be something else.
“We have cannabis that is far, far more potent, almost 45 percent, 100 percent Tetrahydrocannabinol. We can’t compare it to what they’re saying they have decriminalized.”
He said enforcement is strict in those countries and argued further that not so many countries, including the US, have “actually said we have decriminalized some of these drugs. None, including the UK”.
He said the UK used to permit the importation of cannabinol, which is used for some kinds of medical treatment.
He said: “But of late, they have also restricted it because they’ve noticed the increasing content of cannabinol in that particular oil.
“Some people are saying, ‘We make a lot of money from it.’ But it is not money we are looking for. We are looking for the health of the nation. We’re looking for the well-being of individuals.
“But they are talking about the commercialization of drugs and all those things. To me, it is a misconception, which of course the media should come out against it because we know that it’s something that is wrong for this country.”
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