The deputy agriculture minister, Joe Manduwa, argued in parliament that Indian hemp could take the place of tobacco, and a member who was also a doctor backed him, calling it non- addictive. The government explored the idea briefly and dropped it. A UN report of the late 1990s had estimated that up to 156,000 hectares of Malawi were under cannabis, and seizures jumped to more than 312,000 kilograms in 2000.[1]
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