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Africa:
Ugandan
Farmers
Call
for
Marijuana
Legalization
4/15/2005
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/382/uganda.shtml
Farmers in Uganda's Busia
district have responded to police raids on their marijuana crops by calling
for legalization of the crop, the Kampala Monitor reported April 9.
The calls came days after police in Uganda and neighboring Kenya destroyed
22 acres of pot plants.
Marijuana growing should
be legalized because it is one of the district's major sources of income,
farmers told the Monitor. Profits from the crop have helped educate
local children, some of whom are High Court judges, the farmers claimed.
"It is only through marijuana
growing that we have managed to take our children to school. It is
on this record that the district has been able to produce good judges and
lawyers," one of the farmers said. Another farmer, Mzee Opio Wanyama,
78, said he had been growing pot for 30 years and had managed to educate
his 15 children with his profits.
Such talk didn't sit well
with Steven Wantenga, officer in charge of the Busia Criminal Investigation
Department, who said local growers were fond of smuggling their crop into
Kenya. They should find other work, he said. "I call upon all
local leaders to sensitize the masses about adopting new other income generating
activities rather than smuggling and growing marijuana," Wantenga said.
But he had no suggestions.
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