South Africa: Space Cakes Sold To School Children
You better believe it – some unscrupulous people are actually selling drugs to school children and this is not even in the United States! I read this news report from OIL which detailed how school children in South Africa are being sold in on dagga cookies and muffins. At first, I did not have any reaction. After all, I have never heard of dagga before. So I looked it up online and this is what I found (courtesy of Drugware):
Dagga is a green plant-like substance derived from the Dagga plant. The Dagga plant can be found in the form of a bush and the size is dependent on various factors, for instance the temperature in which it grows, the rainfall, the nutrients in the soil in which it grows and some of the inherited genes in the seeds that are being used during the planting process. There is a wide variety in sizes of the Dagga plant. A characteristic of the Dagga plant is the leaf that can be found in the form of a hand and that usually consists of an uneven number of leaves, usually five, seven, nine or eleven leaves, situated on the stem.
The botanical name for Dagga is Cannabis Sativa.
If I am not mistaken, dagga is the South African term for weed, or marijuana.
This may not be something new for some of us. After all, we have been hearing of drug use in schools for quite some time now. “Worse” drugs than marijuana are being used by people. Still, doesn’t it disturb you to hear about school children being offered muffins and cookies laced with weed?
Mitchells Plain pupils have been buying dagga cookies and muffins at school.
A week ago, a painter, Vusumzi Mhlawuli, 25, was arrested on suspicion of selling “dagga cakes” to pupils at Westridge High School in Mitchells Plain.
Full-sized cakes were going for R100 while cupcakes and muffins were R5 each.
It has emerged the pupils were then cutting up the cakes and selling the portions to schoolmates.
The school’s Bambanani safety officers, deployed by the provincial department of community safety, became suspicious when they spotted schoolchildren buying the cakes and cupcakes.
They bought one of the cakes, which the children described as “delicious”, and found dagga inside.
As if we didn’t have enough to worry about with regard to school safety! I think that people who perpetrate such activities should be jailed and taught a lesson, don’t you?
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Posted on September 1st, 2008 by Deborah J Thomas
Filed under: Drugs, High School, K-6, News, People Involved, School Grade Level, School Safety Issues, Students
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