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South Africa: MPs, doctors blow medicinal dagga bill out of the water

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 06/03/2015 - 08:00

MPs and medical researchers have rejected a bill that proposed the legalisation of dagga for commercial and medicinal use, with some warning of the "hazards" of the drug for families and communities.

MPs, legal experts and clinical specialists from the Medical Research Council yesterday discussed the Medical Innovation Bill, first introduced as a private member's bill by IFP MP Mario Ambrosini. He took his own life after suffering from stage-four lung cancer for more than a year.

ANC MP Nonhlanhla Ndaba was dismissive of the proposed legislation yesterday.

"I believe that dagga cannot cure cancer. The experience I have of people smoking dagga makes me believe there isn't any stage at which I will agree that we can legislate such a bill.

Intsangu (dagga) has a hazardous health impact on the human body," said Ndaba.

Professor Charles Parry, the director of the Medical Research Council's alcohol, tobacco and other drugs...

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