Pubdate: Fri, 16 Jun 2006
Source: Daily Trust (Nigeria)
Copyright: 2006 Daily Trust.
Contact:  http://www.mtrustonline.com/dailytrust/
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NIGERIA 'GROWS BEST CANNABIS IN THE WORLD'

Cannabis farmers are winning the war against government officials,
a drug law enforcement chief has said.

Daily Trust travelled to Edo state, considered even by federal
officers to be the home of the "finest cannabis in the world", to
investigate the soaring profits being made by drug farmers, and the
poor quality of the resources the federal government has given its
agencies to fight them.

Drug smugglers are suspected of using government vehicles to transport
their wares to market, while the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency
has only one car to fight them, our investigation reveals.

A former drug baroness spoke to our reporter and told how the
smugglers do it, and the vast quantities of money they can make from
growing cannabis on remote farms, for sale in Nigeria or in Europe.
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