Senate to resume from recess on valentines date with 'bhang'

All eyes will be on the Senate as the house business resumes from recess on Valentines day throwimg its weight on the proposal to have cannabis sativa (bhang) a legal plant to grow or trade in.

The petition by Mr Gwanda Ogot a researcher and political analyst is set to be introduced seeking to legalise and decriminalise the drug.

Those serving jail terms are likely to be set free if Mr Ogot's proposal is supported into law subsequently removing bhang from the list of narcotics.

As illegal as it is today, those abusing the medicinal value of the plank as chain 'weed' smokers freely talk about it and use it even in public.

Most of its users are youth,male and female in colleges and universities for what they term as releasing the white smoke on their youthful fun moments.

Kevin,not his real name, is a fourth year student at the University of Eldoret.

He admits smoking bhang early morning on a daily basis, he believes smoking bhang gives him money making ideas.

He attributes his addiction to enabling him work smart to make extra money for his pocket money through writing project proposals for friends who are supposedly furthering their studies.

 He is on a mindless banter with a lady next door as he puffs out in a sequence of question and answer.

"I do online writing jobs and proposals to make money. Hii kitu inanipea ideas mob za kumake doo, but project yangu mwenyewe imenishinda kuandika ata proposal," he says.

Next was a conversation on his one-year-old son. He has a child with his colleague but in the conversation admits having dogded responsibility and opted to have the student mother stay away alone.

It is the converstion that reminds me of Mr Ogot's position ,the law being the problem and not the drug or even its abusers.

The researcher will be summoned by the legistlators, a defence one following nacortic wars of addiction and eradication would die not to miss.

Makueni Senator Mutula Kilonzo is among legislators who aready feel such a law would be detrimental to the country.