Kenyans online get high on bhang legalisation petition

Kenyans online get high on bhang legalisation petition

Researcher, writer and political analyst Sammy Gwada Ogot petition to the Senate to legalise bhang in Kenya has been met with excitement.

The Senate on Wednesday, led by Senate Speaker Kenneth Lusaka confirmed the receipt of a petition seeking to decriminalise Cannabis Sativa and its derivatives from petitioner Sammy Gwada Ogot.

The upper house of the Parliament, which came back from recess on Wednesday, acknowledged two petitions in its sittings, Mr. Ogot’s and Universities Academic Staff Union (UASU) petition regarding the 2013 – 2017  Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) for Universities Academic Staff.

— Senate of Kenya (@Senate_KE) November 29, 2017

Mr. Ogot, formerly introduced the petition to the Senate earlier this year but the petition faced rejection from Makueni Senator Mr Kilonzo Jr who opposed it.

If Bhang is legalised in Kenya it will mean that it will be removed from narcotic drugs and listed under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act of 1994.

Those serving jail terms for offenses related to the drug will be decriminalised if the petition turns into law.

Kenyans online are pretty excited with the idea.

— Mck Mckenzie (@Afro_Mck) November 29, 2017

— ben (@14may125) November 29, 2017

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— Braxton Lord (@braxton_lord) November 29, 2017

 

— Myrddin (@TheLantean) November 29, 2017

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— MadeOfBlack (@Steveochi_) November 29, 2017

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