The Ondo State Governor, Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu advised Community Pharmacists to pursue the controlled cultivation and use of cannabis for health benefits in Nigeria.The Governor gave the advice while playing host to the National Executive Council of the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN) on Wednesday 12th, February 2020 in Akure.
It was gathered by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the Association Of Community Pharmacists (ACPN) were in Ondo State for a two-day visitation with its members on the State Government project sites. The Governor explained that cannabis could also be used to boost the economy from its present state, “The way things are going now, the world is moving ahead of us, it is for us to expand our economy in order to get out of this economic quagmire,” he said.
“Cannabis is something we can export to make money from. The important thing is to look at the beneficial use, and work against preventing abuse,” he said.
The President of ACPN, Dr Sam Adekola, said the association had come to take up the advocacy on the issue of beneficial use of cannabis to people. He said, “For us, as Pharmacists, we have come to take this advocacy seriously and we believe that this project will soon be able to benefit the people of the State and the country in general. So many people could be employed through cannabis and the medicinal benefits of this product are too numerous to be mentioned,” he further expressed.