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Southern Africa Is Responding To Demand For Medical Marijuana Despite joint efforts to eradicate marijuana from the police in Malawi seems to be losing the battle against wily growers and smugglers. Malawi is the second largest marijuana producer in Africa, which occupies an increasingly significant part of the global cultivation according to the UN. One of the reasons is that tobacco yields less on world markets. BRIAN LIGOMEKA. OCTOBER 30, 2003 Recently six drug smugglers with 28 large bags of marijuana held at a cemetery in Nkhotakota. The charge was apparently on his way to South Africa through a series of trucks, ambulances, ferries and coffins. The six were discovered after villagers began to worry about the desecration of their cemetery. Despite the arrests, the other farmers in Nkhotakota are not likely to abandon the cultivation of cannabis, because it brings much more than tobacco, the main cash crop in the country. Tobacco prices are very low on the world market. What other crop brings me otherwise more money? asks a 42-year-old farmer who prefers to remain anonymous for fear of arrest. To escape the police, most hashish growers sought refuge in the remote mountain areas where there are no good roads. The police have received tips that some major drug groups are hiding their marijuana in the sprawling tea, coffee and sugar plantations. Police spokesman George Chikowi describes how resourceful traders. They carry the stuff in coffins in hearses and ambulances also use them to get past roadblocks and escape checks. Some drug barons buy young police officers and ask them to transport hashish in police transportation. The agents take the risk and use a cemetery as a warehouse or distribution point. According to Chikowi the police want to conduct a total war against the illegal trade and aircraft of the South African police or army hired to destroy marijuana plantations in the remote corners of the country. The police need planes and helicopters because the plantations are not accessible by road. It is their intention for cultivation, consumption, supply and transportation of marijuana that government wants to completely eradicate. For that we need cars and researchers who want to stay a few months in the bush where hashish is grown. Despite transport difficulties the police have already conducted several raids. Late last year they raided farms in the districts of Nkhotakota and Mzimba in the center and north of the country. It destroyed more than hundreds of thousands of marijuana plants, representing more than 61 tons of drugs. A report by the United Nations Development Programme UNDP shows that in Malawi grown to at least 156,000 hectares of marijuana. A study by Peter Gastrow of the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria on the trafficking of cannabis in southern Africa, says that South Africa is the fourth largest producer of marijuana in the world. In 2000 the South African police, the report lay hands on 718,000 kg - 16 percent of what the world is seized. In 2001, another 496,000 kilos withheld is worth about 55 million euros. The UN found that between 1999 and 2000, nearly a quarter of all cannabis was seized in southern Africa. In 2000, the major global increase was mainly the result of seizures in some African countries, particularly South Africa (718 tons), Malawi (312 tons) and Nigeria (272 tons). The UN concluded that Africa's share had risen in the global catch of about ten to 32 percent and the share of North and South America fell from 80 to 61 percent. Global demand for cannabis thus appears to rise and supply increases correspondingly, especially from Southern Africa. In Malawi, the fight against the cultivation of marijuana also complicated by the rastafaris that has the Government urging to legalize the drug. The rastafaris seek the support of the National Ombudsman of Malawi. Which should help their 'dagga' to get legalized, part of them according to their religion. Nobody should hide behind religion to violate the laws in this country, says the government. But some Rastafarians stated in court that they continue to smoke hashish long as the constitution of Malawi recognizes freedom of religion, although the court aren't wanting to hear any of it. Curiously enough, the Rastafarians have an ally in the ruling party, the United Democratic Front. Joe Manduwa, MP and former agriculture minister asked parliament a while ago to legalize cannabis to increase the foreign income of the country. It is high time that Malawi have resorted to growing marijuana to gain more revenue from abroad. His proposal was immediately scuttled by his colleagues in parliament. Meanwhile cannabis oil still continues to be used as medicinal treatment in the effective cure of cancer throughout the world.