Yemi Bamidele
28 December 2008
As the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) staged a five-kilometre walk round Oyo State capital in support of its anti-drug awareness campaign, the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has advocated capital punishment for hard drug traffickers and peddlers in the country.
PSN specifically wants drastic measures to be taken against the cultivators of cannabis sativa otherwise known as Indian hemp and their barons saying they were murderers and silent killers.
Speaking at the awareness rally organised by the NDLEA in Ibadan for stakeholders, notably the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Drug Free Club, the Crime Watch and other Non-Governmental Organisations, Oyo State chairman of the PSN, Mr. Kunle Amusan reeled out the dangers inherent in illicit drugs and concluded that "it will not be too much for the authorities to mete out capital punishment to offenders.
"The cultivators of illicit drugs as well as the barons are not only unpatriotic elements, but they are murderers for perpetrating this heinous crime," he said stressing that they should be adequately dealt with.
According to him, this measure, if taken, would send a message to the society that government was serious in its war against production, trafficking and consumption of illicit drugs in the country.
While commending the NDLEA for waging relentless war on illicit drugs in the country, the PSN chief pledged the solidarity of his organisation to the agency and assured of the society's readiness to partner with the NDLEA in the just struggle.
Oyo State Commander of NDLEA, Mr Jadi Suleiman, had earlier explained that the on-going Drug Demand Reduction programme would be intensified as the campaign would soon be taken to the schools and colleges as well as the grassroots.
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Pharmacists are supposed to be AIDING the health of a nation, not diminishing it. But diminish the health of Nigeria is exactly what these Nigerian pharmacists are doing by asking for the death penalty for cannabis growers. At first, I couldn`t figure out their angle.....then I remembered the name of DR. ANDREA BARTHWELL, US Drug Enforcement Administration policy wank and GW Corp. [pharmaceuticals] employee of the year for some year or other....!
The light dawned on me then. Get rid of healthy cheap drugs like cannabis, and they can sell that EXPENSIVE crap they've been dealing out much more easily… [Read Full Text]
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