By MAKOKWA CLARA MUYENDEKWAA MALE juvenile of Choma District has been placed on one year probation and counseling after being found with a case to answer for being in possession of marijuana.This is in a case where the juvenile stood charged with trafficking in psychotropic substances contrary to section 15 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic substances Act no 35 of 2021 of the laws of Zambia as read together with Statutory Instrument no.199 of 1995.Particulars of the offense are that on November 10, 2021 the male juvenile did traffic in a substance namely 2.7 grams of marijuana a herbal product of cannabis sativa without lawful authority.Brief facts are that Drug Enforcement Commission Officers received information of person in Shampande who was trafficking in drugs.It was then that they officers followed up and searched the juvenile who was found with one ball of marijuana and took him to police while the sample was sent to Lusaka for […]
JUVENILE ON PROBATION, COUNSELLING FOR POSSESSING MARIJUANA
