Sometimes in the mid 70s my then Member of Parliament, the late Jackson Makweta, rattled members of the National Assembly by tabling a motion urging the august House to legalise the use marijuana.
To many, this was rather an unsettling motion taking into account the disciplined and high moral standards upheld by the then no-nonsense Mwalimu Nyerere.
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