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Sometimes it took more than a camera and camaraderie to get through the work. Marijuana, known locally as dagga, is widely available in South Africa. Carter and many other photojournalists smoked it habitually in the townships, partly to relieve tension and partly to bond with gun-toting street warriors. Although he denied it, Carter, like many hard-core dagga users, moved on to something more dangerous: smoking the "white pipe," a mixture of dagga and Mandrax, a banned tranquilizer containing methaqualone. It provides an intense, immediate kick and then allows the user to mellow out for an hour...
Those who wish to consult responsible sources of information on cannabis derivatives (hashish, charas, bhang, ganja, dagga, and marijuana) will find Hashish: Its Chemistry and Pharmacology, Walstenholme, G.E.W., ed., Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1965, of interest; also, The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, Goodman, L.S. and Gilman,A., 3rd Edit., New York, Macmillan Co., 1965, pages 299-301, Grollman, A., Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Philadelphia, Lea and Febiger, 1960, pages 230-232, and Drug Dependence: Its Significance and Characteristics, Eddy, N.B. and others, Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 37, 1965. Dr.Dana L.Farnsworth Director University Health Services
...routed Katangese army, who slip across the Congo line to peddle their weapons to eager white and black Rhodesians who may one day use them on each other. In the east, smugglers from the Portuguese colony of Mozambique make their way through the wild, mountainous bush to bring in dagga weed (marijuana) and take out gold stolen by workmen in Rhodesian mines. Last week the harried border guards had a new chore: to prevent the smuggling of hops into Southern Rhodesia. At Beitbridge, on the Limpopo River, a customs officer dutifully searched the luggage of a vacationer returning from South...
...illicit dagga traffic has been on the rise recently, and local police have long suspected the existence of some great new source of the drug. On patrol of the foothills lying beneath the great, rugged Drakensberg Mountains a fortnight ago, a party of seven policemen discovered one such source-a vast valley planted solidly with the grey-green weed. They sent a messenger to the nearest police station to report their find, then began tearing out the plants one by one. Suddenly from the mountain above there came a fierce Zulu battle cry. Down the hill raced a horde...
...time reinforcements arrived, the Zulu dagga planters had fled to the impenetrable, distant mountains. Unable to pursue them, police returned to the dagga valley with a fleet of trucks. At week's end they had harvested and destroyed close to 200 tons of deathly dagga...