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Swaziland's Cannabis Grandmas Smothered Under Legalization cannabisculture.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cannabisculture.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Labat says it wants to be involved in every part of the cannabis value chain, from genetics to retail and dispensary. Now it has partnered with the CSIR to ramp up the processing of hemp as well as the commercialisation of medicinal cannabis. ....
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Grandmas Grow Gold in Swaziland Sibongile Nkosi, 70, started growing marijuana near Piggs Peak when she heard that the plant could earn a decent return.Credit.Jonathan Torgovnik for The New York Times Aug. 14, 2012 PIGGS PEAK, Swaziland â After her daughters died, Khathazile took in her 11 orphaned grandchildren without hesitation. It is what a gogo, or grandmother, does in a country where the worldâs highest H.I.V. infection rate has left a sea of motherless children. âGod will help us,â she said. Perhaps. But Khathazile has some insurance in case divine intervention fails: Swazi Gold, a highly potent and valuable strain of marijuana that is sought after in the thriving drug market of next-door South Africa. In a field deep in the forest, atop a distant hill in this arid corner of tiny Swaziland, Khathazile grows Swazi Gold to keep her growing brood of grandchildren fed, clothed and in school. ....
MBABANE The ongoing decline of Swaziland’s economy has left many people with no livelihood other than subsistence farming - including the growing of cannabis. But cultivation of “Swazi Gold” - as it’s known to weed enthusiasts - is still barely keeping households afloat. By global standards, Swaziland’s marijuana cultivation is nowhere near the levels seen in major cultivation countries, such as Afghanistan, Morocco or even neighbouring South Africa. But according to Andreas Zeidler, regional spokesperson for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), although there are no official figures and the geographic area under cultivation is relatively small, the amount of marijuana being grown in the kingdom is “not insignificant in the region”. ....