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    "id": 767027,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/767027/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the last Senate, we had a similar Petition, probably by the same person but I am not sure. That Petition is clearly incompetent, contrary to law and unconstitutional. Cannabis sativa, commonly called marijuana, bangi and so on, is prohibited by the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. When the world is moving away from cigarette smoking, how can the Senate of the Republic of Kenya entertain a matter to legalise smoking of cannabis sativa ? That Petition should not have any day before any Committee of this House. It is contrary to public morality, public policy and the law and it is not for the good of this country anywhere. We all come from villages and the fellows who smoke cannabis sativa look like they are mentally disturbed. Many of them are permanently dazed, incapable of making any rational decisions and are quarrelsome. As a law practitioner, I have gone to court to defend criminals whose only mitigation is that they were under the influence of"
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