Former Naivasha MP John Mututho has spoken out after the Kenyan Rastafari community moved to court seeking the legalization of marijuana.
Mututho, former chairperson of the National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NACADA), warned that allowing the use of bhang in Kenya would be dangerous.
The anti-drug abuse crusader argued that the type of cannabis found in Kenya is more potent than that in the European countries, where the substance is legal.
He indicated that cannabis potency differs from region to region, depending on several factors such as altitude, soil, water, and temperature.
“The cannabis used for fibre somewhere in Europe…the potency is 0.2% of THC which is narcotic. What we have in Kisii is over 10.2%…that is about 50 times more potent than what they are having in Europe. Are you saying now that you allow that one to grow and allow free usage?” he posed during an interview on KTN News.
He continued: “We need thorough research. If it has to be grown it has to be grown for a purpose and with restrictions.”
Mututho claimed that the cannabis strain grown in Kenya causes wild imaginations and hallucinations.
“We cannot allow that variety we have in Meru, Kisii, bits of Nakuru, Ethiopia…that thing that makes you so high, that thing that ruins your life. That thing that makes you look monstrous. That thing that makes you have so many hallucinations.”
“You have seen them dive into a basin thinking it’s a swimming pool. You can’t allow it,” he added.
This stuff is poison. Kenya…
This stuff is poison. Kenya needs to continue to strictly prohibit its use.
I will play devils advocate…
I will play devils advocate here. @ Kim, do smokers know its poison?And if so why are they poisoning themselves?
Admittedly, legalizing it might send message to some people that its OK to smoke it,but for some,It will not make any difference.Just alcohol,just because,its legal does not mean that every body will want it.
My point here is that may be society is not sending enough messages of discouraging people from using this poison.
Finally,the devil’s advocate says that since its poison,and prohibition does not work,just makes it go underground or on black market, why not control it be legalizing?
Prohibition does not work,…
Prohibition does not work, someone simply gets rich by supplying what people want, in this case weed. The illicit alcohol dens are there for the same reason. Nevada, Washington state and Colorado and New Mexico all have legal weed. The sky has not fallen and Colorado weed sales were at $2 billion in taxable sales. Nevada has always been on the cutting edge when it comes to “sinful” activities. New Mexico is also headed that same route. Anecdotes can’t be a substitute for research of which there isn’t much and that is all Mutotho is offering. Which do you think has bigger and more damaging societal consequences, weed or alcohol?
True mututho. I’ve met…
True mututho. I’ve met jamaicans and they said their weed is ultra mild. Everyone smokes it and lead a normal life. Ive seen Kenyan addicts with long senior moments, zero interest in development or work, abnormal appetite
My nigga, weed makes you…
My nigga, weed makes you jump into a bucket wow on what planet did ur research come from. Weed ain’t no molly the zombie drug u fool. U need to put some thought in words as u end up looking like a fool. I smoked weed once n all i did was eat everything in the fridge n washed it down with olive oil. Thanks to weed a job that could have taken me an hour to clean the fridge, did it in 20min so my nigga where is the beef. Let the peoples bong smoke but make it a crime if it does not go on rotation. Even our good Lord said in some verse in the Bible n i quote ” Our Father High Up In Heaven”, so please my nigga let the good plant rest on peoples lips n let the glory be to Jah.
@shaka, I think you are just…
@shaka, I think you are just stupid to have confused everything in you fridge and worse still to have drunk 2 gals of olive oil! You surely jumped inside that jug of olive oil and jumped your head inside the fridge! Is that not exactly what Mututho is saying? Drugs have devastated and destroyed the lives of many Kenyans and should not be legalized in Kenya! A working nation can never prosper on drugs!
U such an idiot. Talking…
U such an idiot. Talking shit and saying my niggar. Who thought you that language fool?
It is what he has learned in…
It is what he has learned in his ghetto “”hood” and the olive oil in his watermelon head is reacting causing him to act stupid! “My nigger, my ass”!! His mother aught to be quite ashamed of him!
You a piece of shit.
You a piece of shit.
This idiot @shaka is already…
This idiot @shaka is already “swimming in a very small basin” because his brains are fried! Mutothu is directly talking to you Shaka! Wake and get cleaned up! You are a damn fool and sorry to say you are confused! Literally!!
Mututho was specifically…
Mututho was specifically talking about you and to you! He knows you are a druggie! Clean up little boy @shaka! Your mama is tired of you doping and she is gonna knock your teeth out!
Mututho pretends he doesn’t…
Mututho pretends he doesn’t know that corruption is the father&mother of drug trade.In 2009,Mututho,the chairman of agriculture committee in the useless parliament,pocketed shs 400m in cash and a shs 200m house bribe from muuaji Raila to allow the sale of contaminated/poisonous/cancer maize he(Raila) had imported from SA.It is still killing thousands up to this day.
Mr Miguna Miguna @morris…
Mr Miguna Miguna @morris menye mutiso, I thought it was Ruto who imported the ‘dirty’ maize? When did it switch to Raila?
It is like there are not…
It is like there are not enough drugs and alcohol problems with the DP Ruto’s wheelbarrow confused youth who seems to only aim at the highest level of attaining s wheelbarrow!
That is exactly what happened in Rurii ward MCA elections! Ruto gave the youth some ganja and a wheelbarrow each to buy their vote. Faith Gitau, no kuria and ndindi Nyoro we’re the supplying ganja agents.
The MPs got heavily bribed by Ruto to destroy the young minds in that backward part of the country using opium! They are all given cheap wheelbarrows. A wheelbarrow in Ririi is viewed like a Moris Minor car used to be valued in the 1950s.
The voters in Rurii still possess the colonial mentality of voting under bribes! Ruto have figured that out and he will use Rurii voters in 2022 and then dump them!
The youth smoked Ruto’s opium, got confused and carried each other on the wheelbarrows to go vote for Ruto’s bhang smoking candidate! Ruto is supplying rurii with madawa ya Kurevia so that the youth can stay confused up to 2022 to vote for him!
Ruto will confuse the simple minds there and them have all their wakorino women and children locked up in a church and burnt alive! You ain’t seen it yet folks!
Pure truth being told here…
Pure truth being told here about Ruto drugging up young unintelligent voters in one of the country’s poorest region!
Ruto’s main purpose is to destroy young kikuyu men with opium and cheap bribes like the maddening stupid wheelbarrows so that he can have very little resistance when he starts fighting them after 2022.
Everything Ruto is doing is Moi style part 2 bigger than what you saw in the Rift Valley in 2007/8. The youth in Nyandarua better wake up and stop being destroyed by Ruto; a total selfish stranger who has a history of killing the Kikuyus.
He is now going to heart of the kikuyu people to destroy the youth with drugs! Unfortunately Faith Gitau is bribed to carry out Ruto’s evil mission. A blind politician who supposed to the mother to the youth Ruto is targeting but she is a partake of Ruto’s planned evil schemes.
It is like there are not…
It is like there are not enough drugs and alcohol problems with the DP Ruto’s wheelbarrow confused youth who seems to only aim at the highest level of attaining s wheelbarrow!
That is exactly what happened in Rurii ward MCA elections! Ruto gave the youth some ganja and a wheelbarrow each to buy their vote. Faith Gitau, no kuria and ndindi Nyoro we’re the supplying ganja agents.
The MPs got heavily bribed by Ruto to destroy the young minds in that backward part of the country using opium! They are all given cheap wheelbarrows. A wheelbarrow in Ririi is viewed like a Moris Minor car used to be valued in the 1950s.
The voters in Rurii still possess the colonial mentality of voting under bribes! Ruto have figured that out and he will use Rurii voters in 2022 and then dump them!
The youth smoked Ruto’s opium, got confused and carried each other on the wheelbarrows to go vote for Ruto’s bhang smoking candidate! Ruto is supplying rurii with madawa ya Kurevia so that the youth can stay confused up to 2022 to vote for him!
Ruto will confuse the simple minds there in Rurii and them have all their wakorino women and children locked up in a church and burnt alive! You ain’t seen it yet folks!
The residents of Rurii are…
The residents of Rurii are being mislead by their own rogue politicians who are not so well educated leaders like Faith Gitau and others whose vision for their future is lost in the bribes they receive from Ruto’s stolen money! Ruto does not have any love for these poor Rurii residents!
But unfortunately this region is the poorest in the country and ignorance rings bells no matter which direction you look. The ignorant akorino who dominate the region are easily deceived by Ruto with petty bribes of small money and wheelbarrows.
The folks in this area of Rurii live a life worse that of Stone Age times. So a damn wheel is a big thing to them. They use wheelbarrows to deliver their Rurii pregnant wives to the local clinic to give birth. A wheelbarrow to them is a like a car because they have never seen a real car! The silly gift from the most poorly intentioned Ruto deceives them! Remember, akorinos are poorly educated and not so intelligent!
And Ruto is capitalizing on their ignorance to destroy the fabric of the kikuyu youth! Rurii people are made of akorino’s who get easily turned against their own by Ruto’s cheap bloody money!
Most of the Rurii residents do not know how to read and write! So they are stupid and Ruto is now using them through uda to say that all Kikuyus love him! Ruto uses the his fake religion to confuse them.
Wake up people! Stop being used by a mad man! Ruto does not have a grain of love for you! He is destroying you slowly and once he getting to the presidency Ruto will kill all of you! Just like he killed our people in the kiambaa church in 2007! Ruto will repeat the same history at the noon hour while you watch in despair!
Jaja the Bitch go back to…
Jaja the Bitch go back to school n work on ur English n take ur other Bitch Mark with u as nowhere did i write i drank 2gal of Olive Oil. Its fuckers like u that make a nigga wanna grab his bong, set it on fire to keep cool. Weed is not a drug, effects of crack, molly r not the same as weed so before u respond to something do ur homework first, let what u have read marinate in ur small coconut then educate us.I know Mark u saw ur dad high n playing in the mud n thought it was weed, but bitch nigga was high on glue. Fuck u
You are nothing but a Rurii…
You are nothing but a Rurii uneducated idiot bought by a mad DP Ruto with a shaky wheelbarrow! Go to hell you damn traitor! Wait until Ruto come after you with a blant machete, bowl and poisoned arrows! Don’t say you had not been warned you toddler! You and Faith Gitau are seller outs! Just because Gitau sleeps with Ruto does not mean we all jump in a pool of deceit! Shame on you fool!
2 gals of olive oil is what…
2 gals of olive oil is what this lunatic drunk? No wonder he is a dummy!!
Daddy played on the mud…
Daddy played on the mud while you sniffed cocaine and grabbing your small glob ( small glob as you call it) as y
Everything you say here…
Everything you say here depicts how messed up your dopey head is gone! I just feel so sorry for you little kid. You mon should have thrown you away in a trash can at birth! Useless!
.. haiya…how did y’all get…
.. haiya…how did y’all get high…or is it me? Seems like all commenting here are high on something….
The problem is most weed…
The problem is most weed sold is not weed.
They use kale ,spinach and lace it with chemicals.
Commercialization of weed is big business. It’s better than what SONKO, Joho, MWAU, KABOGO sell.
Just like food,use it in moderation.
You eat too much, you get obese..
You smoke too much,then hallucinations starts…
Ebu waelimishe hawa…
Ebu waelimishe hawa nimevutana kusukuma miaka nyingi sana yet to jump in a basin to swim have not emptied the fridge or shown violent tendecies mr Mututho pombe na sigara zina madhara kuliko bhangi make it legal to consume n illegal to trade grow for self consumption
Ndubi, funny as thats what i…
Ndubi, funny as thats what i call the brown shit that comes out of my ass, nigga first of all i do not live in the ghetto, 2nd of all if u picked up the herb u would know its ought not aught so work on ur English n third my mom is very proud of me as she know i ain’t no bitch like Thuita which name sounds like what comes out of the mouth of a dog getting castrated. Know ur facts bout weed before writing stupid ass comments.As u write ur shit u do know the weed business is mega n many are jumping at the opportunity at selling it like as Mike Tyson n Snoop n can bet u in a few years Africans will have caught on n the blazing can be done. Once again weed is a herb not a drug bitches. Lastly Thuita n Ndubi fuck u.
Your mama threw away the kid…
Your mama threw away the kid and took home the placenta! She is really proud of that stinky placenta she labored to take home and raise only for you to end up a ghetto placenta kid!
Anyone can tell you are just…
Anyone can tell you are just truth by the manner you present yourself! I don’t think your mama is proud of you! You need to have your mouth cleaned with Detto soap! I just feel sorry for you, kid!
Keep on teaching your stupid…
Keep on teaching your stupid weed as you head is fried already! You are too emotional just like a small dog! Keep you crap @ Shaka to your small head! You must be a real lunatic! Drive on with your doping fool!
@shaka, do not deny that you…
@shaka, do not deny that you are a product of the ghetto and every body knows you live in the ghetto! Your own father used to be a chungulira! Why are you denying the obvious?
Bitch Mark, i am ur father n…
Bitch Mark, i am ur father n the worst thing to have happened to me was when the condom broke n ur bitch ass was born. Ur pussie ass mom Ciro was easy as some cheap corn on the streets of Nairobi. Bitch first of all i do not smoke weed, just tired it once n second i’ve worked with a homeless outreach program so well aware of most of the drugs out on the streets n have well studied them. So the fools hia calling weed a drug without offering anything intelligent to back them up show the level of stupidity most Kenyans project. Mark if ur bitch ass needs to think first before throwing up shit. By the way Ciro did u get rid of the Crab situation u had in ur pants n if u did good for u n pliz join Mark in fucking off.
Glad you submitted yourself…
Glad you submitted yourself to that homeless shelter because you are such a trashy kid! Please there any try to clean your ass up! You are rotten to the core! Your underbelly is smelly rotten and you will never recover no matter how much you try! You are just a psycho!
This guy @chaka is seriously…
This guy @chaka is seriously swimming in the lake of drugs, alcohol and possibly meth! You can tell he has. It brains left due to his drug intake! He needs help!
Kiprono n Bitch ass Diaz or…
Kiprono n Bitch ass Diaz or Azz if u went to a school that taught English n not found English in America u would understand what i draft. Bitch nigga’z like u r what bring our nation backward. U call me a drug addict n whatever n i have clearly stated i don’t smoke weed. I worked for a company that had a department to aid the homeless n was chosen to help. If u ain’t on the streets u do not know shit so before u write ur bullshit, get off ur mama’s breast, educate ur dumb ass then come at me. Explain to all of us how weed is a drug as its now being used in the medical scene. Don’t just write cause the porn u were jacking off to went on commercial break. This is a platfrom for u to be smart but alot of u bitches would rather attack me without providing any intelligent facts. Fuck u all n u too need to hook up n toss the salad, bitch Azz nigga’z that i know only saw Nairobi on their way to the Airport to come to America with Harambee money.