This was stated by Harsheth Kaur Virk, the Project Officer, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Nigeria in her presentation at a one-day public hearing on the rising abuse of pharmaceutical drugs among youths in Nigeria.
According to Virk, cannabis is a miracle drug allowed for medical purposes by the UN. However, she stated that it was not for recreational purposes.
“Nigeria, as a sovereign nation, has its stringent laws against it; but international conventions of the UN have approved it for medical purposes, based on the outcome of researches conducted to that effect by globally recognised institutes,” she says.
Virk added that apart from cannabis, users of other addictive drugs for recreational purposes, as approved by the UN, should not be criminalised but rehabilitated. She also pointed out that the global body was against drug trafficking.
Conclusively, she charged Nigeria’s security agencies to be proactive in their anti-drug trafficking campaign and not reactive.
About time y’all legalized this s--t.