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THE PROBE TEAM BECOMES CANNABIS SELECT COMMITTEE

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Sir,

I see that the ‘dagga select committee’ has given its 10-4 other than Tuesdays schedule when they will sit and discuss a benefitting ‘dagga’ industry?  Will this team have the acumen to take this topic to the next level; it’s all very well sitting and listening but do they have the intellect to proceed?   


Stakeholders will also be invited who have already pointed out; ‘No mandate in Parliament’ and the said product is ‘satanic’? This obviously shows a complete lack of interest or capacity to look at an industry that if set up and managed properly could give the country’s economy a genuine boost.


This negativity can be seen as pure ignorance with no opportunity given to see any positives or just greed where people see no fattening for themselves so why would they ever entertain investigating the proposed industry?
Once again Parliament is quick to set up committees, meetings, trips and spend, spend, spend without even getting started on the ‘grass roots’ of the proposal which is to legalise a business which despite being illegal has been thriving as a mass ‘cottage industry’ for many years.


Parliament shows its usual tenacity to come up with committees which eventually come up with reports but unfortunately this tenacity to spend is not matched equally by intelligence to push whatever these committees are set up for.


These committees plan to fly away on fact-finding missions instead of focusing on what is happening here at home. We do not need to fly somewhere to understand how different nations on the other side of the world are conducting their industries. Get on with video conferencing during your 10-4 discussions.


Why not elect people to the committees who have relevance to the product and industry? The media recently published stories regarding MPs signing International Protocols where they had no idea what they were signing off, as admitted by themselves - really? Yet here we have another lot of MPs tasked with looking into an ultra sensitive topic for which, between them, they have what experience, qualification or skill to be productive?


These MPs, most of whom would stand no chance working at a higher level in the corporate sector, are actually busy looking for further rewards for themselves despite their lacking in skills required to sit in Parliament. This all reeks just as much as another committee recently set up with four members to discuss applications for personalized number plates. 


Shall we mention again that Asian influx probe team whose report is still pending? How much time and money was wasted by this lot who did plenty of finger pointing and promised the uncovering of rats and their corruption at the highest level.
How about a ‘probe team’ probing ‘probe teams’ and the need for productivity and cost effectiveness of any of these teams?

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