DEV VIRAHSAWMY
5, Edwin Ythier Street, Rose Hill, 71368, Mauritius
limemsa@gmail.com https://boukiebanane.com
LET US RECAP!
1. The genus Cannabis has several species, two of which are of interest to us. They are recreational Cannabis, known in Mauritius as GANJA, which yields THC, a psychoactive drug, and industrial Cannabis, AKA hemp, which yields a great number of useful materials for building, rope making, manufacturing of textile goods, shoemaking, producing green electricity and for the preparation of an efficacious painkiller, known as CBD oil etc.
Industrial Cannabis (IC) yields up to 3 yearly crops and between rows (‘rigol’ in Mauritian) of IC plants food can be grown, killing two birds with one stone.
2. CBD oil can give solace, comfort, and respite to more than 250,000 Mauritians suffering from a whole range of painful pathologies, ranging from cancer to migraine.
CBD oil is legal and easily accessible in many countries such as the Republic of South Africa, India, most European countries, and most states in the USA.
3. In Mauritius, it became legal in November 2022 and is still not available to people who need it as it is under the control of a handful of medical and non-medical civil servants who are very keen not to let go their power for reasons we can easily imagine. They have invented several pretexts giving the impression that they are bent on reinventing the wheel.
4. Political, legal, social, medical activists and the private media should join forces to force the government to make CBD oil easily accessible in both the public and private medical institutions. The PM and his sycophants and cronies who constantly claim to love the people of Mauritius, should start to walk the talk, and not merely pay lip service to the welfare of one and all, while earnestly ensuring that the interest of some lobbies are not in jeopardy.
5. We need a massive popular movement to get those in power to understand that we mean business and that we have the means to settle accounts with those who think they can take us for granted.
DIBOUTE, MO MAM,
PA PER!
NOU POU RANZ ZOT KARI!
01.08.23