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Organized crime and instability in Central Africa

Cannabis from the DRC to the region

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  1. International Narcotics Control Board, Precursors and chemicals frequently used in the illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. 2007E/INCB/2007/4. para 45.

  2. Ibid.

  3. International Narcotics Control Board, Precursors and chemicals frequently used in the illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. 2009E/INCB/2009/4. para 45.

  4. For example, followers of the Rastafarian movement, which views cannabis as a sacrament in a uniquely African religion.

  5. Studies have shown some strains of African cannabis to be low in cannabidiol, a chemical that some research has indicated can have an anti-psychotic effect, and may moderate the effects of THC.

  6. According to the local press in 2008, the Ugandan Anti-Narcotics chief declared to country to be “East Africa’s biggest producer of the Cannabis plant”. This conclusion was apparently based on a joint operation meeting in Arusha that year. ‘Uganda: Country leads in marijuana’. The Monitor, 27 March 2008.

  7. 2009 Uganda Police Annual Crime Report. p. 14.

  8. United States Department of State, International Narcotics Control Strategy Report 2010. (Washington, D.C.: USDOS, 2010).

  9. UNODC Delta.

  10. Rwanda National Police. Police sets on fires kilograms of cannabis. Available: http://www.police.gov.rw/spip.php?article123

  11. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Annual Reports Questionnaire 2008, response to Questions 3 and 10.

  12. Interview with Major Kasikila, Commander of the Criminal Investigation Police, Goma, 5 April 2011.

  13. MONUSCO Police report, 16 April 2011.

  14. Interview with commissionaires in Kanyabayonga, Democratic Republic of the Congo. 7 April 2011.

  15. On 12 August 2008, a civilian truck carrying four sacks of cannabis was impounded on the way from Butembo to Mangurujipa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the soldier escorting the shipment was arrested.

  16. The uncertainty range would be between 4.7 per cent and 10 per cent. See World Drug Report 2010, p 287.

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Organized crime and instability in Central Africa. Trends Organ Crim 15, 75–83 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-012-9149-1

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