{"id":1225793,"date":"2022-10-15T19:58:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T19:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/15\/ive-never-smoked-cannabis-but-im-high-on-justice-says-sowore\/"},"modified":"2022-10-15T19:58:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T19:58:04","slug":"ive-never-smoked-cannabis-but-im-high-on-justice-says-sowore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/15\/ive-never-smoked-cannabis-but-im-high-on-justice-says-sowore\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve Never Smoked Cannabis But I\u2019m \u2018High\u2019 On Justice, Says Sowore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_791296\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-791296\" style=\"width: 738px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-791296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sowore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), has revealed that he has never smoked cannabis in his life.<\/p>\n<p>Sowore, an advocate for the legalisation of marijuana, disclosed this during a Twitter Space hosted by The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).<\/p>\n<p>The conversation, themed \u2018Cannabis: health or wealth\u2019, was on whether cannabis should be legalised or not.<\/p>\n<p>Sowore said that even if cannabis is legalised, he will not consume it because he was already \u201chigh\u201d on justice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a02023 Budget Illegal, Says Sowore<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not consume cannabis. Never smoked cannabis in my life. Even if you legalise it, I\u2019d probably not take it because I already think I\u2019m high on justice. I don\u2019t need to add any more substance to it,\u201d Sowore said.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting during the space, the publisher of Sahara Reporters added that he has maintained his stance because \u201cI know all those countries that have legalised\/decriminalised growing of cannabis will come and impose their products upon Nigeria whereas Nigeria has some of the best products already\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that beyond consumption, cannabis can also be used for the production of medicines, textiles and concrete.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sowore Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), has revealed that he has never smoked cannabis in his life. Sowore, an advocate for the legalisation of marijuana, disclosed this during a Twitter Space hosted by The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The conversation, themed \u2018Cannabis: health or wealth\u2019, was on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1225795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}