Meet the South African teens ravaged by Cannabis called ‘Swazi gold’

This is the most used illegal drugs in the world, and with South Africa as UK’s biggest providers of high-strength cannabis,  ‘swazi gold’ as it is wrecking havoc on the young population.

The plant ‘swazi gold’ is being grown by poverty-stricken grandmothers, growing the drug, and also risking their lives to smuggle it out of the country and what is left behind is running the lives of South Africa.

The plant is grown in a tiny South African sovereign state of Swaziland in which it rich nutrient soil helps in the mass growth of this marijuana. The result of this cannabis which boasts a staggering  high concentration of THC, which is the psychoactive agent which produces the “high”, this  now find it ways into the UK and the streets of Johannesburg.

“We don’t care where it ends up” as the farmers of “swazi gold” lamented about cannabis. The marijuana is now mixed with heroin to make highly addictive new cocktail know as “nyope”.

Some of the addicts to swazi gold says “I smoke until I die…… I get crazy if I don’t get this”

most of these addicts smoke an average of 15 heroin-laced joint per day. The farmers and dealers pay off corrupt members of the police to avoid being arrested on daily basis, even at airports that allows the trafficking of the swazi gold around the world.