MarijuanaNews.com : Cameroon, One of the Poorest Countries in the World, Wants to Import Medical Marijuana from Canada, One of the Richest Counties in the World. Why?

Posted January 9, 2001
January 8, 2001
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CAMEROON TO IMPORT CANNABIS

Cameroon, a major cannabis grower, is to allow people suffering from HIV/Aids and cancer
to use the drug as a form of pain relief. Local growers are very angry about the
government’s decision. The move comes as a shock to many people, especially unemployed
young.

Dzeka Edwin Fon, a young graduate who is spearheading a group fighting for the
legalisation of cannabis cultivation in north-west province, says the growing of the plant
could be a lucrative business for unemployed young people.

“Cannabis is already being grown in Cameroon - though illegally - so it is unwise for
the government to import it,” he says.
(MarijuanaNews note: Cameroon has a population of 15 million and a
per capita income of only U.S.$610. It is absurd for it to import something from Canada
that can so easily be grown there.)
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He suggests that officials at the Health Ministry should supervise the cultivation of the
drug in Cameroon - and so control the amount grown and provided to the hospitals.

Crime Fears:

Many people in the north-west of the country know and accept that
cannabis is grown there. It is already being used in the production of a hair lotion
popular with Cameroonian women.

According to one doctor there is no special medicinal trace element in the Canadian-grown
plant that is not found in the Cameroonian variety.

He said that if the government adopted controlled cultivation it could easily supply all
provincial and divisional hospitals in the country.

But law enforcement officers believe the cultivation of cannabis
promotes uncontrolled consumption, which leads to an increase in crime.
(MarijuanaNews note: In yesterday’s posting,
Ottawa Citizen’s Dan Gardner
Says “U.S. Bullies World Into Waging Futile Drug War” –UK Article Demonstrates
How This Continues.
Gardner reported that “Charles Siragusa, a U.S. narcotics
agent during the early years of international drug prohibition, noted in his 1966 memoirs
that foreign police “almost always worked willingly with us. It was their superiors
in government who were sometimes unhappy that we had entered their countries. Most of the
time, though, I found that a casual mention of the possibility of shutting off our foreign
aid programs, dropped in the proper quarters, brought grudging permission for our
operations almost immediately.”

Thus, there are two reasons that the Cameroon government would
want to import marijuana from Canada. First, their police are no better than the thugs in
DEAland or Canada who arrest sick and dying people. Second, they are probably afraid that
the DEAland government will cut off their aid, or even engineer a coup to overthrow the
government.)

Last year, hundreds of young people were arrested and jailed in the
north-west when police and gendarmes destroyed their cannabis farms.

Note: The drug is grown illegally in north-west Cameroon. But the drug is to be imported,
in large quantities, from Canada.
(MarijuanaNews note: This will come as news to the Canadian
government which does not expect to have any medical marijuana production until next year.
Even then they do not plan on having any for export. The Cameroonians might have better
luck getting it from the Dutch government.
See
Belgium to Import Dutch Marijuana for
Medical Tests to Expedite the Process, While the UK Government Says It Will Stall for Four
More Years to Pharmaceuticalize Cannabis.
In any case, importing it from anywhere really makes no sense at
all.)