Malawi legalises the growing, selling and export of cannabis

Re:Malawi legalises the growing, selling and export of cannabis by voldacar on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @06:22PM (#22489239)

acute food shortages would make growing food more lucrative than growing khat. there is probably something else going on

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Re:Malawi legalises the growing, selling and export of cannabis by Mediterraneo10 on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @09:12PM (#22490303)

Khat suppresses hunger, so if you don’t have enough food to eat, you just chew more khat.

Also, stable food production requires multiple growing cycles. It is possible for short-term famines to be created by farmers' choice of more lucrative products. While food production can be restored over subsequent years, that is cold comfort to all the people who had to do without in the interim.

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Re:Malawi legalises the growing, selling and export of cannabis by zshrdlu on Thursday March 05, 2020 @01:15AM (#22491359)

Which part of Africa specifically have you observed this?

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