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"speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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"content": "should never find its way for discussion in this honourable August House. It is one of those substances that we all know are intoxicating. It is one of those substances that are anti-social because somebody who is under Cannabis Sativa has no control over his or her faculties. It would be morally wrong to justify it on the basis that because it has been presented as a Petition, we should allow it simply because somewhere else, for example, in the United States of America (USA) it is has been practiced and known to be medicinal. I do not disagree that there are certain pains which are beyond the threshold. Therefore, in purely medical prescription one can then be given to be able to alleviate the pain. However, to simply say - we are all privy to the fact that this is one of the substances which is destroying our youths and society - that the Senate should be in the fore front of supporting this type of Petition, it would be wrong. I talk from a position of knowledge that there are ways and means of knowing which would be a medicinal or a non-medicinal plant. One of the things that I know and understand fully is that Cannabis Sativa can never be a medicinal plant other than one that causes a lot of destruction and damage. In fact, the previous weekend I met a young unemployed man, and when I looked at him he looked very normal and extremely wonderful only to discover later the kind of mess he had made in his previous place of work because of Cannabis Sativa. We call it"
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