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Mon, 14 Sep 2026 Feature Article

Bad Journalists Echo or allow DLEAG to Misinform the Public without Necessary Push Back?

Bad Journalists Echo or allow DLEAG to Misinform the Public without Necessary Push Back?

How can you allow anyone to vaguely say 'most drug dealers are Gambians'. Well, it is almost normal for Gambians to outnumber foreigners in anything in the Gambia, good or bad, but what are the proportionate percentages beyond who? In our age of information, you should be able to tell us about 52% of 'drug arrests' are Gambians, 21% Nigerians, 18% Senegalese, and the rest of different nationalities. If Nigerians or xyz are 5% of the Gambia's population and what percentages per crime, then what other factors can still be vital to gauge? Perhaps if you have a smart cannabis person as President, minister, top media manager, head of DLEAG, then many things may get better, including the debated. No! I mean we do or do not want to hear 'most drug seizures in the Gambia are Cannabis'. We all know Gambians prefer cannabis in usage and arguably in selling. So the Gambia does not have a huge hard drug problem, but a cannabis issue and I believe cannabis can be both an issue and/or solution . I believe cannabis should be legalized worldwide, it has so many benefits, including character and health uplifting in whom God wills. Vague terms like most, many, few, etc are for writers who are not in government and not in all issues, but governments should present numbers and even those numbers should be detailed enough to avoid misinterpretations. If the government officials refuse to give the needed verifiable numbers, then good journalists should ask for the numbers and/or repeatedly add: 'they chose vague, refuse to give detailed numbers as good governments of even cannabis folks may...'

Sometimes who and what can trade positions of vitality. Who traffic most may not be as important as what is trafficked most versus what is seized most. If you claim 2 tons of cannabis and 100kg of cocaine was seized last year, that is just one measure of numbers. Citing the so-called dollar value in wholesale versus retail has been a trick the guilty American+ governments and journalists used to trick the poor into drugs and fool the foolish that they can win the war against cannabis. The Gambia and other countries may be doing similar and refuse to learn even after I caught them naked. 2 tons of cannabis seized may mean 100 tons passed, because supply is hardly dented in any country. Claiming 2 tons of cannabis has a 'retail value' of 10 or 100 million dollars is a dangerous fractional fact to tempt non-thinkers to assume huge money is in drugs above learning and many kinds of blessed work. You can either drop the dollar value, or at least honestly use the wholesale value. You cannot catch someone with 20kg of cannabis and insist s/he was going to make the retail value to mislead the gullible public or over-charge the accused? No! That was likely wholesale, often half the retail value in the underground world. So we do have dumb or even cruel and lying politicians, but the journalists that blindly echo them or refuse to think and push back are part of the problem. So how many presidential candidates in the Gambia or your country are publicly promising legalization of at least medical Cannabis?

Back to numbers. I actually estimate only about 10 to 20% Gambian males+ use cannabis, but virtually every extended family has one or two using it. Virtually, every village or neighbourhood has at least one cannabis dealer. So tiny Gambia has thousands of cannabis dealers, tens of thousands of users, and hundreds in prison for cannabis. How can you agree it is ok for alcohol drinking cops, cigarette smoking cops, adulterous bleaching judges+, etc to arrest even those who may need cannabis medically? They may again use vague terms like 'most people use it for fun'. Fine! What is your plan for those who need it medically or just sacrifice them? Fine! We cannot demand precise numbers on medical versus recreational usage, but we can estimate and test them? Even if 5 to 25% of cannabis users are doing it for health reasons, why should we gamble them, unless you are cowardly folks who believe in sacrificing or oppressing minorities. Gambians and many Africans sadly do not respect minority rights, but I wonder if they deserve to be minorities in the whites+, angels+, to be maltreated for different issues. No! I am confirming human evolution did not always respect minority rights, but repenting differently. By race or country, which groups respect versus disrespect minority rights most?

Someone who does not directly harm you, governments should only use regulations to avoid potential sins between creatures. Although I support cannabis legalization, I oppose street smoking because that will fall under potential sins between creatures. Until legalized and venues for smoking exist, then the poor teenager under a strict parent may prefer street smoking to avoid parental confrontation.

Legalization may have both advantages and disadvantages, but I am confident that the advantages far outweighs. Coincidentally, I did not use cannabis for a long time, but I had a terrible arthritic attack that was likely coming, and I decided to use cannabis these two days and the pain is thankfully mitigated. How do I know it was likely going to be a big attack? Because last year, I was foolish enough to use only conventional medication for months and it did me terrible for months. Then I re-tried cannabis with conventional medicines, exercise, and I improved. For months, last year, I used a walking stick until God's help came through cannabis. Ch.93:11 says: 'And proclaim the blessings of your Lord', so those who benefit from cannabis should not be cowardly silent, but help win the fight. Sometimes after using cannabis, you vividly get character or health improvements. To be honest, if life is about man made wealth, then cannabis and Africa are not yet good to me. Beyond me, countless people are making millions or billions through cannabis, including hemp. Since I openly declared cannabis legalization, I had to fight with stubborn governments and even family members, which likely contributed to my financial woes. What percentage of governments and families are repenting or under-repenting? I wish God conquers for me worldwide, the easy way or the hard way. They have no right to threaten or harm me, especially after knowing it does help me and I hurt no one for decades...

Continue on numbers: Do 'most people go insane over cannabis usage'? Well, you like 'most or few', but not honest enough to say few or very few people do have problems under cannabis. So can we push you towards numbers? Do you believe one, ten, or twenty percent of cannabis users go insane in the Gambia versus Canada, the u.s, Uruguay, Ghana, etc? Some of you have extremely weird beliefs and are terrible echo chambers of questionable Imams+ and politicians to journalists. Only a lying or assuming Imam+ with no medical degree can claim 'cannabis drives him/them crazy' and implicitly insist cannabis is among the 'handy works of Satan' like alcohol. The naive followers of such Imams+ may be the worst, accepting vague assumptions, despite ch.49:6+ telling us 'some assumptions can be sinful'. There is almost nothing in this world that is universally good to everyone, but what percentage should we say tolerable or intolerable based on facts, not wild guessing and cowardly or arrogant misinterpretations of religious texts? Even the mighty sun is not friendly to all, deadly to very few, but I tend to enjoy it , high or not, more than average cannabis users I know.

If 99% of cannabis users in Canada+ are much more OK than cigarette and alcohol users, then you should ask what the one percent may be doing wrong. The secular mind may claim 'too much usage', but some people are actually kicked-out of cannabis on day one. Some are accepted and later kicked-out for different reasons. Cannabis includes some mysteries, but the good news is it is largely good to trying people so far. If your child uses cannabis and commits intolerable sins between creatures, God may punish him or her through cannabis or xyz. You have the option to blame cannabis or the sins between creatures. I rather leave sins between creatures than cannabis. I also rather preach that people should avoid and punish sins between creatures more, not cannabis. I want God to give me wide varieties of cannabis strains and help me choose the best beyond emotions for every moment. May God help legalize cannabis worldwide and make it good for every trying soul.

Jarga Kebba Gigo
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