Food and Drug Administration: Cannabis isn't harmful to health

• The researchers want marijuana to be classified as a Category III load of moderate to low physical and psychological effects, the report said.

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The authority in charge of food and drugs in the USA, the FDA (Food and Drug Administration), has determined that marijuana does not have serious effects on human health, contrary to what was previously thought.

According to a study, research was conducted by scientists from the FDA and found that marijuana has a lower potential for abuse compared to other drugs such as heroin.

Marijuana is currently listed as a Category I drug which is loaded with drugs with the highest level of abuse and the ability to cause its users to become psychologically, or physically, independent.

The researchers want marijuana to be classified as a Category III load of moderate to low physical and psychological effects, the report said.

In Kenya, marijuana is one of the banned drugs; planted, sold, and used, despite the efforts of former presidential candidate George Wajackoyah to demand that the plant be legalized.

In his manifesto towards the 2022 general election in August, the learned lawyer, George Wajackoyah, who was using the cannabis plant as his party's logo, was advocating the legalization of cannabis cultivation.

He said it was not only for local use but also for commercial use, saying that Marijuana has a high value and that its sale in foreign countries would bring the nation great profits and thus free the country from the chains of foreign loans.

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