We’ll lose $145bn if we don’t tap into marijuana business – Akeredolu

Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu says Nigeria will be short-changing herself with $145 billion in 2025 if it fails to tap into the legal marijuana market.

Akeredolu said this yesterday via his verified twitter handle while reacting to some media report that he was in Thailand to learn how to grow cannabis.

Akeredolu described Ondo State as the hotbed of cannabis cultivation in Nigeria.

According to him, “We know how to grow it and it thrives well in the Sunshine State.”

He said his administration’s focus was on medical marijuana cultivation in controlled plantation under the full supervision of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.

He implored the Federal Government to take it seriously as “it is a thriving industry that will create over one thousand jobs for the youths and spur the economic diversification.”

The governor, alongside the chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah, was on a visit to Thailand for a programme on medicinal canabis extract development.