Is Africa missing out on a healthy, financial dose in marijuana business?

Workers pick leaves from cannabis plants inside a greenhouse in Lesotho. PHOTO | AFP  

In Summary

• Growing of and consumption of cannabis for recreation is illegal in most African countries.
• Still Africa produces 38,000 tonnes of cannabis each year, according to the organisation Prohibition Partners, which tracks the sector.

By PETER MUNAITA

Cannabis could become Africa’s forbidden green gold, as African governments open up to the