On the BTC Podcast, AAC presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore urged Nigeria to explore cannabis for medicine and economic gains.
“Cannabis has just 3% of what they call THC, which is the one that makes people high. Cannabis can be consumed in more than one way. The smoking is the device that people use so that they can inhale it, it gets faster. Cannabis can be eaten as brownies. Cannabis can be cooked, you know.”
“But before you say that I have been taking cannabis for a long time, which I don’t consume, by the way, it has several other uses. The stem of a cannabis plant is the best for making clothes. Now it’s been detected or discovered that cannabis makes the best blocks for building houses.”
“Yes. Like if you build houses with the stem or the fiber of cannabis, you won’t even need air conditioning. But most important, it’s medicine. So my proposal is for us to actually be exporting it and raising money for medicine.”
“And the economic argument that brought me to that, in 2018, most countries are not even legalizing cannabis. But Canada legalized around that period, and Canada is making four billion dollars every year.”
