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| FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT. Celio Carinosa, 36, (left) wants to hold a protest before the office of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) 7 to tell them marijuana is a medicine that should not be considered illegal. However, he and his friend Rasan Dayupay, 31, (right) has been detained at the Cebu City Jail since August 2015 for illegal possession of marijuana. (SUN.STAR FOTO/ALAN TANGCAWAN) |
CELIO Cariñosa wanted to heal his friends’ illnesses, so he tended a garden of marijuana in Sitio Lutaw, Barangay Labangon, Cebu City for at least a year.
“Gi-istoryahan ko sa Holy Spirit gud nga magtanom kay tambal ni sa nasud nga nasakit og kurapsyon ba (The Holy Spirit told me to plant these because this will heal the nation that is sick with corruption),” he said.
The 36-year-old said he would drink bottled water with drenched marijuana leaves steeped in it every day and it helped alleviate his kidney problem.
His friend Rasan Dayupay, 31, agreed with him.
“Kon hilantan ko, imnon lang na nako, mawala man, kon magsuka-kalibang, ig-inom mawala man(When I get fever, I’d feel better after drinking it),” Dayupay said.
Cariñosa and Dayupay were arrested in the garden by the Cebu City Public Safety Company and the City Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Group operatives late afternoon on August 2, 2015.
Seized
The team of police confiscated at least 50 stalks of marijuana planted in the garden.
“Luoy kaayo akong tanom kay pila ka buwan nako giatiman, gipamatay lang og sayon sa akong atubangan (I feel pity on my plants, which I had taken care for months, because they were killed in front of me),” Cariñosa said.
Cariñosa, a former follower of the Iglesia ni Cristo, said he found somewhere in the book of Philippians in the Bible that the marijuana leaves can really cure illness.
He denied selling those plants, saying he would only give some to those who would ask for it.
“Naglain imong lawas, tagaan tikag pito ka dahon, naa kay tubig, isulod lang sa bottle, pwede na imnon hangtod mo-gray na ang tubig (If you feel something bad, I’ll give you seven leaves, drench them in a bottle of water),” he said.
Cariñosa noted that it is part of his “task” never to ask for payment from the people he helped.
He said he had even asked the Holy Spirit to prove that the task was real and at one point, “naay thunder nga iyang gipakita (it showed me thunder).”
“Mopakita siya’g sign ba, usahay pod hapakon ko’g hangin, mao ‘tong wala ko mahadlok mananom ana bisag illegal (He would show signs like when the air slapped my face, so there I picked my courage to plant marijuana),” he said.
He got his seeds from a friend, but he refused to reveal the friend’s name.
Fast healing
Cariñosa said that aside from drinking, he would also advise his friends that smoking weed can fasten the healing process, too.
Supt. Merbert Esguerra, CCPSC chief, said nobody in the neighborhood could attest that the suspect’s plants had healed someone, except for Dayupay.
Cariñosa had been arrested last January after he was found sniffing shabu in a suspected drug den. He posted bail.
Unlike marijuana, though, Cariñosa was not sure if shabu can heal. He said he would only use it to respect his friends’ invitations.
Dayupay, for his part, said he had been arrested for at least four times in relation to illegal possession of shabu before. (BY DARYL T. JABIL)
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