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Meet the South African teens being ravaged by dangerous new strain known as 'swazi gold'

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 04/23/2015 - 08:00

... and it could end up on the streets of Britain

 

  • The strain is grown in Swaziland, one of South Africa's poorest states
  • It has extremely high concentrations of THC
  • South African teens blend it with heroin to produce potent cocktail 

It's the most widely used illegal drug in the world, but does cannabis deserve its reputation as being one of the safest?

Not if you take a look at South Africa, one of the UK's biggest providers of high-strength cannabis, where a potent strain of the plant dubbed 'swazi gold' is wrecking havoc on its young population.

As revealed in BBC's Stacey Dooley Investigates, which aired last night, poverty-stricken grandmothers are growing it, drug mules are risking their lives to smuggle it out of the country, and what stays behind is ruining the lives of South Africa's drug-addled teens.

Swazi gold is grown in the tiny...

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