Elderly dagga farmers in court
11/05/2006 13:53  - (SA)  

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Harare - Twenty-one people appeared in court in southern Zimbabwe on Thursday, after the discovery of a flourishing marijuana plantation.

According to the Zimbabwean state-controlled Herald newspaper, the 21 are part of a group of 29 arrested and charged under the country's Dangerous Drugs Act.

The marijuana farm was found after Zimbabwean police arrested a man smoking the drug - known locally as "mbanje" - and he led them to his source, reported the Herald.

The newspaper report read: "The detectives discovered almost 40 fields with an average of 1 500 plants."

The haul is reported to have a street value of 15 billion Zimbabwe dollars (about R960 000).

Several of those arrested were in their sixties.

- SAPA

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