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Enforcement 🇧🇷 Brazil

Police raid a septuagenarian's cannabis garden in Alagoas

Acting on a tip-off, officials in Igreja Nova, in the interior of Alagoas, went with the mayor to the house of a man in his seventies who said he had smoked diamba since boyhood, and seized a small plantation in his garden and dried cannabis in bags. França cites the case to show how common small backyard plots were before national prohibition.[1]

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References

  1. História da maconha no BrasilJean Marcel Carvalho França · Editora Jandaíra · 2022 · chapter 2, “O vício dos pretos?” · ISBN 9786550940133

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