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SOUTH AFRICA: train drivers wreathed in marijuana fumes
Reuter Wednesday 20 Aug 1997 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuter) - South African train drivers have appealed for protection from clouds of marijuana smoke wafting in from passenger compartments and the country's commuter corporation is promising to blow the problem away. ``The drivers have been complaining for quite a while about dagga (marijuana) smoke, but the problem seems to be getting a lot worse,'' said Bintu Petsana, spokeswoman for the state-owned Metrorail Corp. She said the corporation had started to install powerful extractor fans in trains serving the east coast port of Durban after receiving complaints from the Footplate Association, the drivers' union. ``The drivers complain that when they are driving and they inhale the smoke, they get quite uncomfortable,'' she said. In Cape Town, a spokeswoman conceded that authorities would never beat the problem entirely. ``We're looking at declaring the compartment next to the driver a non-smoking area and policing it strictly. It's either that or we also install fans,'' she said. There is a growing movement in South Africa for the decriminalization of marijuana, which is widely used in some African ethnic groups.
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