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    "id": 1049225,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1049225/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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        "legal_name": "John Kiarie Waweru",
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    "content": "I am saying this knowing and understanding well that marijuana, just as Bixa, is a disease and pest-resistant plant. We understand that from marijuana we can derive industrial and medicinal benefits. Every time we bring up the issue of legalising the farming of marijuana, we realise that there is so much pushback because people are resistant to the recreational use of it. By legalising a crop such as marijuana, we are not calling for its reactional use. In fact, we need to open our minds to explore the benefits that can accrue from farming a crop that is not affected by drought, pests and diseases. We need a crop that can benefit us through its industrial and medicinal use such as cannabis . This is a discussion that we will need to reopen as we have a holistic look at how we tackle agriculture. If this House was to put its mind into this issue of rethinking our agriculture holistically, then we would find benefit in crops such as Bixa and those that are drought, pest and disease-resistant like I have mentioned marijuana ."
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