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"speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ombaka",
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"content": "is a drug or not a drug is something that we need to know more about. It is something that we have been saying, but we are not aware what it does or what it is; whether it is medicinal or whether it is a drug like beer or cigarettes. It is not very clear. But what I have learnt as a person is from documentaries that have emerged, or that have highlighted what miraa does to people. I remember seeing one on television last year. I think it was a long documentary on miraa . It was a very negative one in the sense that they depicted the drivers taking miraa getting drunk and causing accidents. They demonstrated that miraa is actually harmful to human health and, as a result, it was being condemned. So, from that, one sees that miraa has been criminalized. It has been discriminated against and it has been seen to be wasting peoplesâ lives. That is what we know about miraa . When you see people chewing it, you just believe this is a hopeless person; you tend to have a negative image or feelings about such people. I believe that research should be conducted based on this and whatever will come out will give us the real story or the truth about miraa. Where does it belong? Is it something we can accept"
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