Wednesday, 15 August 2012
Growing Gold
“Without weed, we would be starving,”
“If you grow corn or cabbages, the baboons steal them,”
“I put the seeds in the ground, watered them, and it grew,” she said of her first crop. “I was able to feed my children.”
“Weeds are very bad for weed,”
A good harvest can yield as much as 25 pounds of marijuana. But they sell to middlemen who come through the villages at harvest time, and have little bargaining power. Most make less than $400 per crop.
School fees for her two remaining grandchildren at home would be nearly $400 next school year, she said, and she had no other way to earn the money.
“The men come from South Africa to buy, but they cheat us,” Ms. Nkosi said. “What can we do? If you sit with it the police can come and arrest you.”
New York Times
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2 comments:
Nah ...
You smoke it don't ya ???
Or eating it ... eating is goood
especially after you've smoked it.
then you have coffee and chocolate brownies, when it's time to smoke it some more ... and hey, gotta clean the hubbly quick, and get some coffee.
Sorry .. what were you sayin'?
Hehehehehehee
peace and love good lady :D
yeah, it tastes really really really kak!!! lolol
more for us ;-)
peace dude
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