South Africa has major problems ranging from failed post-Apartheid land reforms to racial inequality to rampant corruption. But none of them, it seems, is larger than having a near-naked indigenous king who grows and smoked dagga, as marijuana is know down there.
Episode 84: King Khoisan’s cannabis and S. Africa’s misplaced priorities
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