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Cannabis reaches the Congo basin with traders from Zanzibar

Cannabis may have arrived in the Congo region in the 1850s, carried by Swahili traders from Zanzibar. Within thirty years it was at the centre of a religious movement in the south- west, and it is today the only drug produced in the country, one of Africa's larger producers, mostly for local use.[1]

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References

  1. Wikipedia — Cannabis in the Democratic Republic of the Congoarchived

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