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Tightening 🇿🇦 South Africa

South African police destroy more than a thousand tonnes of dagga in a year

The police confiscated and destroyed 2,515,563 pounds of dagga in 1954 and 2,757,965 pounds in 1955. By the end of the decade newspapers were warning that the habit, long regarded as confined to Africans and Coloured people, was spreading among young white people in Johannesburg.[1]

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References

  1. John Mitchell Watt — Dagga in South Africa, UN Bulletin on Narcotics, 1961, issue 3archived

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