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Arrest for assault further expose man with cannabis

PLUMTREE - Instituting an arrest over assault has further exposed Mxolisi Ncube (20) of Mlotshana village in Mangwe to a 12-month imprisonment sentence for unlawful possession of weed weighing 15 grammes.Plumtree magistrate, Mr Joshua Nemb…

Published: 24 Jul 2025 at 18:07hrs | 449 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole

200kg of cannabis from South Africa intercepted at Beitbridge

Police in Matabeleland South have arrested two men for allegedly smuggling 200 kilograms of dagga into Zimbabwe from South Africa through the Beitbridge Border Post.Matabeleland South provincial police spokesperson, Inspector Chiratidzo Du…

Published: 23 Jul 2025 at 14:09hrs | 817 | by Staff reporter

High Court slashes harsh 15-year jail term for cannabis dealer

The High Court has sharply criticised and overturned a 15-year prison sentence imposed on a Beitbridge man convicted of dealing in cannabis, citing gross misapplication of the law and failure to consider mitigating factors and sentencing g…

Published: 22 Jul 2025 at 18:07hrs | 671 | by Staff reporter

Drug dealer (20) jailed

A 20-year-old Plumtree drug dealer has been sent to jail for possessing 215 grammes of cannabis.Advance Ncube was sentenced to 15 months in jail by Plumtree magistrate Joshua Nembaware.Nembaware suspended five months on condition of good b…

Published: 05 Jun 2025 at 21:57hrs | 540 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Plumtree

The Proverbial Stupid Fly That Followed the Corpse Into the Grave

It's good to have smartphones for high school students, but are we not throwing out the baby with the bathwater? There is more to lose than to gain when learners carry these e-gadgets on their person while going about the business of acqui…

Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 20:28hrs | 438 | by Thomas Murisa

Sheep on a high: Flock feasts on cannabis after extreme weather

In a truly bizarre twist of fate, a flock of sheep in Greece found themselves feeling a bit too "ewe-phoric" after munching on a crop of weed!Wildfires, heatwaves, and flooding had left the poor flock near Thessaly with little to graze on,…

Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 09:05hrs | 908 | by Staff Reporter

Cannabis production doubles in Zimbabwe

THE production of industrial hemp doubled to more than 40 tonnes last year, with the country exporting about five tonnes to Switzerland.The number of players registered with the Agricultural Marketing Authority (AMA) in the nascent sub-sec…

Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:45hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter

'Cannabis a God-given gift for Zimbabwe'

HEALTH and Child Care minister Constantino Chiwenga yesterday urged Zimbabweans to embrace the legal use of cannabis saying the herbal plant was a "God-given gift" for the country.'The legalisation of cannabis in 2018 sparked controversy o…

Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:46hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean farmers to cash in on cannabis global boom

Zimbabwean farmers looking to cash in on a global boom in medicinal cannabis face a litany of costs and regulatory barriers, but growers like Munyaradzi Nyanungo are betting it will boost their fortunes after decades of economic decline.Th…

Published: 11 May 2022 at 11:36hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Ganja farmer jailed 3 years

A 39-YEAR-OLD Mvurwi Cannabis farmer was sentenced to 3 years for cultivating dagga by a Guruve resident magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa last week.Blessing Spada pleaded guilty to the charge.Prosecutor Albert Charewa told the court that on i…

Published: 02 May 2021 at 10:47hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole

Why are so many countries legalizing cannabis?

For a long time, in countries all around the world, marijuana had a terrible reputation. People who used cannabis on a regular basis were known to be lazy, unhelpful stoners that didn't give anything back to the community. Marijuana was kn…

Published: 22 Apr 2021 at 20:43hrs | 62 | by Staff write

Cannabis lager up for grabs

With the recent constitutional court ruling in line with the legitimization of cannabis SOME business personnel have already started embarking on a money making venture with this indigenous herb.In recent years cannabis had been illegal an…

Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 14:31hrs | 1 | by Daniel Itai

Is weed really that bad?

It is known and it has always been said that too much of anything is bad. Everything around us is good but one is it misused or abused, it becomes a very bad thing. Imagine this water that gives us life, if it is not handled very well it c…

Published: 26 Apr 2017 at 07:42hrs | 6 | by Belinda Chowa

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