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Farmers have asked the government to legalise marijuana growing in the district since it is one of the major sources of income.

They said on Monday that marijuana had enabled them to educate their children.

"It is only through marijuana growing that we have managed to take our children to school. It is on this record that the district has been able to produce good judges and lawyers," one of the farmers said.

Mzee Opio Wanyama ,78 of Buhehe sub-county said he has been growing marijuana for over 30 years and had managed to educate his 15 children.

The farmers said many prominent Ugandans, including two High Court judges were educated through marijuana growing.

This comes days after Uganda police and their counterparts in Kenya destroyed over 22 acres of marijuana plantation in Buhehe and Lumino sub-counties.

The operation was led by the officer in charge of Busia Criminal Investigation Department, Mr Steven Wantenga.

During the operation, over 69kgs of harvested marijuana were set ablaze and 12 suspects netted.

Wantenga said marijuana growers in Buhehe and Lumino were fond of smuggling it to Kenya.

He cautioned them to desist from marijuana growing and asked them to start other businesses to acquire income.

"I call upon all local leaders to sensitise the masses about adopting new other income generating activities rather than smuggling and growing marijuana," Wantenga said.

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king cola

He cautioned them to desist from marijuana growing and asked them to start other businesses to acquire income.

LoL, like some of those people who were growing/selling for 30 years are going to just give up that buisness and just move onto something else. These guys who are growing and selling are obviously making more money than they would legally. Some probably live poor lives and could careless about being caught. I don't agree with selling and neither does this website but it's not about that when i say in the country they are talking about in the article, apparently they are saying prohibition isn't working and the problem won't go away and this is the buisness they've chosen.

I like how they tell the growers/sellers to move onto another buisness after they go and say it should be legalized. I'm sure the detective would like it if the people told him to find another buisness other than busting people for plants, but then again they basically did by saying it should just be legal. Seems to be a big thing in that country and his response isn't going to make a difference. It's just a plant so it keeps his department busy, it's probably easier to find marijuana than hard drugs because people are growing it outside, again allows his people to just spend time looking for marijuana and making arrests, making the department look like they are doing a lot of work with all their pot busts. I would like to know which crime is higher there, cultivation of marijuana or are there real crimes that go on that are higher, if theres no other crime rate higher than growing marijuana then it's obvious that they want prohibition so they don't look like sitting ducks behind a badge with no big stories.