Ganja cakes hit Mutare streets

IT seems the ganja cake is suddenly making its way back into Mutare, two years after law enforcement agents chipped in and contained the spread of the dangerous drug cake among the city’s youth.

RECENTLY a 19-year- old Dangamvura man, Luis Tanaka Munyoro was nabbed with the cake by members of the police. He has since appeared before Mutare provincial magistrate, Mr Tendai Mabwe.

Munyoro was convicted of contravening Section 157 (1) (a) of the Criminal law (Codification and Reform) Act, otherwise known as the unlawful possession of mbanje.

In mitigation, the teenager told the court that one Simba from a local supermarket was the supplier of the ganja cakes. He said he was the one who had sold it to him.

“Your Worship, the cake is being distributed by Simba who works at TM Pick N Pay and he is the one who sold it to me,” he said.

The cake weighed 29,2 grams. Mr Fletcher Karombe represented the State.

The State heard it that on August 23, detectives on patrol in the CBD received information to the effect that Munyoro was at Meikles Park and in possession of a cake that was laced with mbanje.

The detectives approached him and upon seeing them, Munyoro stashed the cake in the back pocket of his pair of trousers.

The cake was recovered from his back pocket after a body search by the detectives.

The matter was adjourned to a later date for sentencing.

Made from cannabis butter, ganja cake became the in-style cheap way to get high for youths, going for only $1 per slice or per scone sometime in 2015, but was short-lived after the police raised awareness and arrested culprits.

Parents and law enforcement agents chipped in to contain the ganja cake influence among school children back then and decency was resolved among the youths.

Then, the ganja cake was selling mostly in the high-density suburbs of Sakubva, Hobhouse and Dangamvura and had slowly become popular among students in school, especially those ranging from the age of 15, 16 and 17.