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Pass marijuana to Mr MP and Blacks

Good people, ‘legalise marijuana’ is an old song but the matter cannot be decided by minds clouded with smoky arguments barraging our eardrums.

The debate has been raging for weeks since Ntchisi North legislator Boniface Kadzamira asked Parliament to legalise the sale of the so-called weed for the good of our ailing economy.

However, the country did not go up in smoke the day Kadzamira delivered his version of Jamaica reggae pioneer Peter Tosh’s Legalise It.

The lawmaker was not the first to do a Peter Tosh in the house of honour. That accolade goes to Joe Manduwa, who shattered the record in 2000 when he was deputy minister of agriculture.

Of course, both Manduwa and his counterpart from the district bordering clandestine herb plantations of Nkhotakota want Malawians to believe they are not after the real sticky stuff, but something called industrial hemp.

Great! Give the puff to the MPs! Laws banning the weed are figments of colonial mentality! Don’t allow doctors to mislead you that tobacco and its bigger cousin cause cancers, tuberculosis and mental impairments. These are the exclamations from friends of the weed, especially Rastas, petty smokers and conspiracy theorists  who never cease crying foul and blaming the West for Africa’ problems.

But the hollowness of this reasoning resembles the Kadzamiras’ failure to look elsewhere for healers of the economy when they launched research into varied hemps.

But the things adults say in the house sometimes become toy-time talk when children go playing.

Unsurprisingly, Black Missionaries weighing in at a show in Mzuzu which was envisaged raising funds for construction of a hostel for at-risk girls in Nkhata Bay.

It is reported the roving band’s soft-spoken bassist Peter Amidu raised his voice in support of the legalization of the illegal weed.

The group’s ganja time has been a contentious issue for years. The smoking, passive inhalation of wild marijuana and celebrity endorsement of an outlawed lifestyle.

But it appears Kadzamira and his celebrity supporters are not talking about one thing. Although the Parliamentarian pointed at the so-called harmless hemp that can be used to make paper, the Blacks are talking about ganja—the harmful kind that no Malawian is supposed to possess, touch and smoke for their own sake.

Expectedly, the arguments are predictable: ganja is not a drug; it’s a plant; it has more than 10 uses; people know the reality but they don’t want to face it…blah, blah, blah.

“If you are drunk, let the one who has smoked ganja drive,” goes the don’t-drink-and-drive gospel.

If cars were wishes, hemp smokers would drive into a pit, telling each other to open their eyes.

And bandleader clichéd the line “smoking weed gives intelligence.”

Think again—and do not ask the Chileka musicians to show you their diplomas and degrees because,  unlike Vybz Katel sings, they did not say whether they went to school high while most of you went to high schools in search of recognised certification of intelligence.

Who the cap fit, let ‘em wear it.

 

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  1. If some states in the United States of America are legalising the weed, why not us? Personally I would rather they legalise the smocking of the weed rather than contemplating legalising Homosexuality.

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