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Gambia: Jamaican poet urges Gambia to legalize cannabis

StarAfrica

Tuesday 13 May 2014

A renowned Jamaican musician and poet has called on the authorities in The Gambia to borrow a leaf from other countries and legalise cannabis sativa.The Standard newspaper reported on Tuesday that veteran Jamaican reggae singer and ‘riddim’ poet, Mutabaruka has defended the legalisation of the drug, harping on its medicinal value for users.

Cannabis is illegal in The Gambia and attracts heavy fines or prison sentences for users and others dealing in the drug.

Mutabaruka who is currently in The Gambia for the first time, attending the 11th edition of the International Roots Homecoming Festival which began on Sunday, argued that the recent upsurge in legal reforms on the use of marijuana around the world was evidence that the item was not as bad as past propaganda campaigns had suggested.

“By the end of this year the Jamaican government wants to decriminalize the use and sale of marijuana. Many American states are legalising marijuana and making money out of it. No youth should be in trouble over marijuana� the paper quoted him as saying.

Over 250 ‘home-comers’ are in Gambia to reconnect with the history of the slave trade and have visited Juffureh in the North Bank region, from where Kunta Kinteh of the Alex Haley book Roots was captured and sold into slavery in the United States some three hundred years ago.

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