Mad Hamish
Well-Known Member
So i decided to read what is called the 'medical innovation bill' currently slated as paving the road for MMJ in the country. Well now, what we have here is everything BUT a canna bill. This is the part that worries me: The bill provides for the use of, as it is stated, 'non evidence based or illegal' medication to be administered by a physician if he or she feels that 'no evidence based medication will be effective for the condition' HOLY SHIT! No mention of cannabinoids. No mention of peer reviewed study. Now, even though cannabis can be regarded as an illegal medication, and yes, this bill will provide for that, what bugs me is all the other shit floating about that would be freely administered with zero consequence to the physician should things go wrong. Chinese research chemicals. Furthermore, it only provides for one facility, obviously government run. The goal for them is to create a medication that can be patented in order to 'recuperate financial losses due to research into the medication' Now we have a whole mess of excited Rastas and Hippies up in arms and ready to vote this thing in without ever having actually read it. It might open a little road for MMJ, but seeing as it is highly unlikely that a patent will ever arise from cannabis research, it is unlikely that the bill will be used to advance MMJ in Africa. I smell a rat. Somebody got paid off. This is a big foreign company playing the lobby game. Problem is, we now have the 'protection of state information bill' making it illegal for any parliamentary decisions to be made public unless it gets the green light from government. To try find the truth is to risk a treason charge. Africa, FUCK YEAh.