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Africa:
Mozambique
Official
Rejects
Calls
to
Destroy
Farmers'
Marijuana
Crops
4/21/06
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/432/mozambique.shtml
Mozambique Attorney General
Joaquim Madeira last week rejected calls from parliament to destroy the
marijuana fields planted by peasant farmers, Angola Press reported.
Instead, he said, the peasants should be offered alternative crops.
Cannabis is a widespread
cash crop for farmers in the impoverished south African nation.
"Herbal cannabis for local
consumption is produced throughout the country, particularly in Tete, Manica,
and Zambezia provinces," said the US State Department in its latest annual
International
Narcotics Control Strategy Report. "Limited amounts are exported
to neighboring countries, particularly South Africa," the report added.
Madeira's remarks came during
questioning from parliamentary deputies during his annual report to the
Assembly of the Republic. The deputies were concerned about drug
trafficking and wanted to know why the government wasn't taking tougher
measures.
But Madeira said burning
down the fields of "soruma," the local name for the weed, was no solution.
Farmers needed new cash crops to replace their marijuana crops, he insisted,
although he didn't specify what those may be.
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