The Prophet Gwada Ogot Has Proposed and Petitioned Siaya County Assembly To Adopt 'Ramogi' as The New 'Toponym' For The County
The Prophet Gwada Ogot Has Proposed and Petitioned Siaya County Assembly To Adopt 'Ramogi' as The New 'Toponym' For The County
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KEHE CON – The Kenya Hemp Conference was held in Nairobi, Kenya — on Jan 20, 2025 — at the Kempinski Villa Rosa Hotel. KEHE CON was a meeting of researchers, policymakers, growers, and investors. Kenya is an emerging agricultural space for industrial hemp.
The Kenya Hemp Conference brought together industry leaders, researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders to gain insights into international trade opportunities and understand the environmental benefits of industrial hemp.
This one-day event provided many networking opportunities, sharing (challenges and opportunities), gaining market insights, and participating in discussions about the legal landscape of hemp.
While Parliament mulls over the issue, a new report has pointed out the most vulnerable professions that may need prior protection.
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The hospitality, entertainment and media industries may be the most-affected if Parliament legalizes bhang as petitioned recently.
The petitioners, Sammy Gwada Ogot and Simon Mwaura, have separately argued marijuana is no less safe than other drugs such as tobacco and alcohol.
But while Parliament mulls over the issue, a new report has pointed out the most vulnerable professions that may need prior protection.
Professions employing younger people aged 18 to 25, such as entertainment, hospitality, sports and media have been found to attract higher use of marijuana where it is legalized.
A look-back report on the effects of legal marijuana in the US district of Colorado by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tells of an increase in work-related accidents.
The report published on April 14 in the CDC’s in-house Mobility and Mortality Weekly Report shows some workplace protective measures need to be put in place to make legal marijuana safer. CDC says employers and safety professionals in states where marijuana has been legalized are concerned over increased work-related injuries, including car accidents.
“Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of work-related deaths in the US, with studies linking recent marijuana use to an increase in accidents,” says CDC.
ANTI-DRUG USE POLICIES
Out of the 10,169 Colorado workers who participated in the study, 14.6 per cent reported using pot, the highest proportion aged between 18 and 25. The highest pot taking was found among employees who prepare and serve food in the hotel industry. These were followed by workers in arts, design, entertainment, sports and media. The lowest pot users in Colorado were employees in healthcare and technical people such as in utilities, mining and electricity. In these sectors however, there were stricter anti-drug use policies, including routine compulsory screening.
Thirty two per cent of employees preparing and serving food in Colorado were found to use pot, which is similar to what was found in a study at the Kenyan Coast.
In an unpublished study, Winfrida Agumba of Kenyatta University sampled 400 workers from 25 star rated hotels at the Coast and reported high use of drugs. Almost half of the workers were aged 20 to 30, with 35 per cent reporting having used bhang compared to the national average of 9.9 per cent of pot users.
The Kenya hotels report shows drug taking was highest in animation and entertainment, administration, food and beverage departments in that order. In a recently prepared guide on recreation pot, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is categorical that non-medical marijuana is bad for human health.
Representing sub-Saharan Africa in preparing the document was Kenya’s top psychiatrist Prof David Ndetei of the University of Nairobi.
“There is need to tread carefully in this matter, especially for a country with a weak medical infrastructure,” says Prof Ndetei.
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U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Thursday that he would introduce legislation to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, marking a significant shift in policy for the Democratic leader and lending the movement to lower government barriers to the drug a powerful ally.
“I believe that the States should continue to be the labs of democracy when it comes to recreational & medical marijuana,” Schumer tweeted in January. “Jeff, this is one place where states’ rights work. Let each state decide.”
The top congressional Democrat told VICE News in an interview set to air Thursday night that legislation to increase access to marijuana is “long overdue” and that far “too many people” have been affected by the government’s crackdown on the drug. [ READ MORE ]
In the eyes of popular culture, cannabis consumers aren’t exactly models of concentration and cognitive performance. So when a small group of researchers began exploring cannabis as alternative treatment for attention deficit disorders, there was of course some scoffing and skepticism. Nevertheless, with so many medical marijuana patients swearing by its ability to promote focus in place of prescription stimulants, these doctors sought to take a closer look at the scientific basis of this counterintuitive phenomenon.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, better known as ADHD, is a controversial diagnosis marked by distractibility, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. Adults are more likely to be diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, or ADD, which lacks this hyperactivity characteristic, but is similar in other ways to ADHD. More than one in 10 children in the U.S. will be diagnosed with ADD/ADHD, a figure that has grown exponentially in the last 50 years. Since 1957, doctors have been treating ADD/ADHD patients with psychostimulants like Adderall, Ritalin, and Concerta.
Antonio Rodriguez, diagnosed with ADD/ADHD at age six, had been among the masses prescribed stimulant medications. “I remember having headaches all the time to the point where I wasn’t able to sleep,” Antonio said, adding that his appetite was also nonexistent until treating with cannabis; and not only was cannabis lifting the stimulant side effects, it improved Antonio’s ADD/ADHD symptoms. “For the first time ever, I was in the state where I could really get my mind together.”
Having only been taught the dangers of using cannabis, Antonio was cautious about trying it for the first time. “I got scared about the whole ‘addiction’ side of cannabis,” Antonio said. “I was waiting for the moment my body asked me for weed, but it never happened.”
For those coming from an anti-cannabis background, explaining its therapeutic properties to friends and family can be difficult. This was no less true for Antonio, despite the fact that his performance in school had won him college acceptance with a scholarship. The reality is, there’s far too little research on cannabis and ADD/ADHD to know exactly how the two interact. Still, the data and results emerging from initial investigations show that there is more digging to be done.
One main physiological irregularity of ADD/ADHD is the brain’s shortage of dopamine, a chemical neurotransmitter involved in cognitive processes like memory and attention. Medications like Adderall and Ritalin stimulate dopamine, thereby promoting concentration, but come with a myriad of unpleasant side effects and withdrawal symptoms.
Dr. David Bearman, a figurehead of cannabis research, has studied the relationship between the cannabinoid system and ADHD and discovered potential therapeutic value as cannabinoids interact with the brain’s dopamine management systems.
“Cannabis appears to treat ADD and ADHD by increasing the availability of dopamine,” Dr. Bearman wrote. “This then has the same effect but is a different mechanism of action than stimulants like Ritalin (methylphenidate) and dexedrine amphetamine, which act by binding to the dopamine and interfering with the metabolic breakdown of dopamine.”
Put simply, the compounds found in cannabis, called cannabinoids, could potentially correct the dopamine deficiency observed in ADD/ADHD patients if dosed appropriately and administered safely. Even in its raw form, cannabis is able to provide the mental slowdown necessary for concentration in many patients. Boring and arduous tasks become more manageable, and mood swings tend to level out. But why?
“The most accepted theory about ADHD rests on the fact that about 70 percent of the brain’s function is to regulate input to the other 30 percent,” Dr. Bearman says. “Basically the brain is overwhelmed with too much information coming too fast. In ADHD, the brain is cluttered with and too aware of all the nuances of a person’s daily experience.”
While most medical professionals agree that anecdotal evidence is not sufficient in recommending cannabis for ADD/ADHD, researchers are optimistic about the potential cannabis is demonstrating. When political blockades let up and further research resumes, it could be that cannabinoid therapy provides a frontier for safer, more effective ADD/ADHD medication.
COMING SOON TO A BOOKSHOP NEAR YOU
Introduction
The official edition of this book will soon be available at a bookshop near you. It celebrates the 4900th year anniversary of Luo as select lineage of God and most significantly proclaims the resurrection of Christ as son of God and first light of humanity. Special as an epochal mark confirming fulfillment of prophesy, it also symbolises renewal of the covenant between Luo, who is biblical Israel and God Almighty.
Enunciated in perfect alignment to the count of the great cycle of light, the narrative runs from Egypt to Canaan as ultimate hooray, and confirms Luo as the proverbial Jews, and Luo history as the biblical story of mankind synchronised with the births and lives of light, time and word. Luo beginnings as Luo specifically date from the 7th generation for she was before.
Personified by 70 Lucan generations, this matchless Spiritual epic starts from Enoch, the 7th from Adam, and who is the first biblical prophet, to Jesus who is his 70th descendant. Having gone full cycle with light, Enoch returns to unveil Kenya as God’s promised land in fulfillment of the written word just as he did in Egypt in the beginning. As the light, his return marks the commencement of a season of higher ideals and consciousness, and one in which the pursuit and achievement of perfect lights of law, lore, and love will be measuring standards.
First bearer of word, he is first of the scholarly lineage of Alego, first Collo, first Luo, and now the first Ler, as it was in beginning times. He is also first scribe and teacher who invented perfect language and writing as well as reading, besides perfectly pioneering Holy Bible writings in Luo. Enoch designed and built the Giza pyramids as everlasting icons of inspired Luo architecture and pedigree of perfection.
Along the path, the formal role and meaning of Luo in human history organically unveils. Luo is the first and only perfect language of light in which Old Testament word was perfectly written and in which all nations, peoples and places were perfectly named. Luo is the official academic title for scholarly descendants of Israel and name of their language of light. As mother of languages, and because Luo named Kenya and the world, meanings of toponyms, hydronyms, ethnonyms, clanonyms as well as eponyms are revealed for the first time ever.
For this reason, Lu is a consistent theme throughout the text as a titular of academic enlightenment denoting luminaries. Apart from distinguishing Luo and subsequently Luhyia as the world’s foremost scholars, Lu represents the genealogical crux between the two Spiritual groups which wrote the Holy Bible. Luhyia wrote the New Testament as second generation of light.
Accordingly, and on the strength of this accord, this encyclopaedic chronicle broadcasts the restoration of knowledge and peace, as well as a return to order via due justice, reward and punishment, and in so doing lights the path ahead for the holy land of Kenya, unveils the continent of Eden, as well as issues commands to the Church as God’s universal institution of everlasting faith and love.
Importantly too, apart from revealing full identities of the twelve tribes of biblical Israel, the narrative unveils Kenya as biblical Israel and holy land where God Almighty will reside from now henceforth as it was in beginning times, and Nairobi as the new holy city of Jerusalem. Holy! Holy! Holy!
Singularly however, the ultimate celebration is in inaugurating the new and Holy name of God Almighty, which is RA, God of creation and God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel. Holy! Holy! Holy! RA is He who opens and closes, He who makes the first last and the last first, and He who exalts and humbles. May His will be done and His holy name be praised by all eternally.
Holy! Holy! Holy!
BOOK EXCERPTS
Excerpted below are 4 of 9 scrolls(chapters) – Scrolls 1, 2, 8 and 9
The three narratives popularly used to explain circumcision are — medical, religious, and cultural. These are more validators than root causes.
Circumcision debates routinely attract ethno-cultural and political profiling, religious stereo-typing, and notably, instances of intellectual gerrymandering.
The theory of circumcision however submits that circumcision was caused by a single dynamic- lack of fresh water- and subsequently the unhygienic conditions arising from irregular ablution.
Irregular ablution causes, bad odour, thrush, cystitis, and other poor sanitation infections, which diminish libidos and stifle sexual concert with the main malefactors being unwashed and accumulated smegma, or poorly managed menstruation.
Relatedly, non-circumcising groups are commonly settled around large fresh water bodies, as those which practice circumcision are settled far from fresh water bodies.
Indeed, the prescription of mid-teen-age for circumcision is preemptively designed, to prepare teens for healthy relationships devoid of stigmatising claims of uncleanliness or sexual deficiency.
Likewise, associating circumcision with courage is a social construct premeditated to forestall high incidences of fleeing surgery without anesthesia, as well as to obligate compliance.
Regular sunshine is another critical factor. It is vital to the production of Melanocyte Stimulating Hormones and feel good neurotransmitters, dopamine and serotonin, which boost sexual appetite and elevate reproduction.
As such, dwellers in areas with regular sunshine are likely to be more sexually driven than their counterparts in colder regions, a more credible account for higher incidences of HIV-Aids in sunnier areas than the incredible WHO linkage of the foreskin to the spread of HIV-Aids.
Furthermore, cold weather causes shrinking of the penile shaft, impeding sexual appetite and fulfillment, a cocktail of factors possibly accounting for the instances of heavy alcohol consumption and high crime rates, especially crimes of passion, common to these areas, as manifestations of sexual frustration.
The practice of circumcision in two neighbouring nations, Uganda and Kenya, vividly illustrate the connection between water and circumcision.
Uganda covers 241,139 Km2, with 44 000 Km2 being under open water or swampland, through 24 lakes and 18 rivers. Of the 63 communities, only two circumcises, Sabiny and Bagisu. Both are in Mt Elgon, a distance away from any major natural fresh water body.
Even in the highlands of Western Uganda, none of the communities within the Rwenzururu mountain ranges circumcise, because their water supply is guaranteed by 12 lakes and eight rivers.
This scenario sharply contrasts with that of Kenya. Kenya covers about 580,367 km2 of land, with only 11,227 km2 being under natural water bodies. Of her total 10 rivers and 9 lakes, fossssswur are either alkaline or saline, Elementaita, Bogoria, Magadi, and Nakuru.
No wonder, only three of the nearly 70 communities in Kenya (Luo, Turkana and Itesot) do not circumcise — an almost reverse position to Uganda. All are settled in North Rift Valley and Lake Victoria basins, locations of the main natural fresh water bodies in Kenya, even though the Itesot also fall within the vast Kyoga swampland stretching from Usuk in Uganda to Western Kenya.
To North Africa: harsh desert conditions of the Sahara compel circumcision; just as in the Southern Africa’s Kalahari Desert. These are situations re-affirming the central role of water in circumcision.
So for all the 2,400 year controversy about the root causes of circumcision, it is water that ultimately explains why some communities practice circumcision and why others do not.
