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    "content": "So, I support this Motion and my advice to the Committee and also to the Mover - who I must congratulate for bringing it - is that the Committee must do technical work. The Committee must remember that the work it is being called upon to do is, to a large extent, technical. Bring out real data and not political arguments and I think there is enough that will make many people realise and support the fact that we can regulate the use of miraa but not really ban it. We do not just have to insist that miraa must be used the way it is being used now. The Committee should also bring to us the following: What are the other ways that miraa can be used? Can we extract the ingredients so that they can actually be used in medicinal form? I must warn that, that certain important crop, if you are not careful, sooner or later, somebody is going to actually look at the active chemical and produce it and the crop will lose its value. It has happened to our pyrethrum. We had the best natural pyrethrine. We messed around with it. We could not produce it. So, what did Japan do? They produced artificial pyrethrines. So, now everybody is using artificial pyrethrines and our pyrethrum has lost value in the international market. It is just coming back because of the green movement using natural things."
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