A 26-year-old man from Highfields, Harare, was yesterday jailed for an effective two years by the Mbare Magistrates’ Court after being convicted of unlawfully dealing in dangerous drugs.
Fortune Tendai Kasina was found guilty of preparing and distributing ganja-laced cookies that left several schoolchildren intoxicated at First Choice College in Highfields.
His co-accused, 20-year-old Leenkan Zvikomborero Muzanechita, denied the charges and was remanded in custody.
The court heard that on August 21 this year, a police officer stationed at Machipisa received information that some pupils had consumed ganja cookies.
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He teamed up with two other officers and attended the scene, where they interviewed the affected children.
The pupils implicated Muzanechita as the supplier, who in turn pointed to Kasina as the manufacturer of the cookies.
Twenty ganja cookies, a sachet of soda, baking powder, and a plastic packet containing an unidentified powder were recovered.
Kasina pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to three years in prison, with one year suspended, leaving him to serve an effective two-year term.
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