LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Rotimi Akeredolu has said that Ondo State is ready to tap into the estimated $145bn medical marijuana market. He warned that since Ondo is “the hotbed of cannabis cultivation,” the state would be short-changing itself if it doesn’t tap into the “legal marijuana market” whose estimated value has been projected to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, says Nigeria will export marijuana if he gets elected as president of the country. He said people are making billions from the plant while Nigeria lags behind. The presidential aspirant for the 2019 election said this while speaking at an event organised by Centre for…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Canada has passed a landmark law that legalises the recreational use of marijuana nationwide. The Cannabis Act passed its final hurdle on Tuesday in a 52-29 vote in the Senate. The bill controls and regulates how the drug can be grown, distributed, and sold. Canadians will be able to buy and consume…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Zimbabwe has followed Lesotho by legalising the production of marijuana for medicinal and scientific purposes, making it the second African country to turn the drug into a source of revenue. However, recreational use of the drug known in the country as ‘mbanje or dagga’ remains illegal. A government notice by the Health…
LAGOS APRIL 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, in Lagos Wednesday said it had seized 98 bags and 570 parcels of Indian hemp with duty paid value at N74.4 million. The agency said the drugs were coming from Togo and Ghana and a suspect had been arrested in connection to the seizure. It…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Officers of the Edo State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency [NDLEA] have discovered a large quantity of harvested dried weeds of cannabis sativa in Ugbubezi forest, Owan West Local Government Area of the State. The drug exhibits were evacuated from the warehouse by a team of over seventy officers…