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Debate 🇿🇦 South Africa

Paarl farmers ask South Africa to restrict dagga sales and cultivation

The Paarl Farmers' Association petitioned the justice minister for stronger dagga controls, alleging harm to labourers' work and threats to white farm women.[1] It supplied a newspaper account of a fifteen-year-old sent to buy dagga from a chemist, showing how the medicinal sales channel could supply other users.[1] The association sought cultivation and sales restrictions through noxious-weed legislation; officials later pursued national drug control.[1]

Listed for context. No score change is recorded for South Africa here.

References

  1. Dagga: How South Africa Made a Dangerous Drug, 1902–1928Thembisa Waetjen · In Cannabis: Global Histories, edited by Lucas Richert, James H. Mills · MIT Press · 2021 · Chapter 4, pp. 83–107 · ISBN 9780262045209

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