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    "id": 767070,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir for giving me this opportunity. I am not supporting or opposing this Petition. Listening to some of the contributions of my colleagues, I am a little saddened that there is talk about never allowing this kind of petitions with regard to Marijuana into this August House. A lot of the discussions are from a moral angle as opposed to the angle of understanding exactly the meaning of drug and drug use in our communities and in our country. I do not know why we are burying our heads in the sand with regard to the use of drugs, in this case Marijuana, and finding a solution to the underlying issues that are driving members of our community to using drugs to the extent of bringing a Petition to this House. It is not just Marijuana, there are a lot of other drugs where we are criminalizing the user but the underlying issues have not been touched upon. Why are our youth using these drugs? We should commit this Petition to a Committee that would investigate why our youth are using these drugs and perhaps educate us. I concur with Sen. Mwaura on this. They should educate us and find out what are some of the underlying issues of drug use and abuse in this country as opposed to saying that it is just that. That, therefore, let us not touch it and that this House is too clean for it. This House, under the law and in our Constitution, needs to give the right to these people and make sure we understand it so that even if it is outlawed now, we make the laws as one of our colleagues said. I would like this House to have an open mind and look into this through the Committees."
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