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Choking bhang debate: What's in it for farmers?

Bhang is an edible mixture made from the buds, leaves, and flowers of the female cannabis, or marijuana, plant. [iStockphoto]

Cannabis is a drug crop with a long history in Africa. Alongside coca and opium poppy, it has been subjected to international control for nearly a century. The International Opium Convention of 1925 institutionalised the international control system and extended the scope of control to cannabis.

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