Police raid Dagga Party leader's home in Montagu, find only a few seeds
Police raided Dagga Party leader Jeremy Acton's farmhouse in Montagu on the morning of Friday 29 April 2011, weeks before the party's first local elections. Officers found only a few cannabis seeds and took a worker to the police station.
Police raided the Montagu farmhouse of Jeremy Acton, leader of the Dagga Party of South Africa, early on Friday morning, 29 April 2011.[1][2]Acton was away in Robertson at the time; the officers questioned one of his workers and took him to the police station.[1][2]
All the officers found were a few cannabis seeds.[1][2]They also took Acton’s pipes and photographed his marijuana graphics and a meditation poem, Acton said.[1][2]Acton had earlier taken party pamphlets to the Montagu police to explain his campaign to legalise cannabis, and said he believed the police wanted to stop his efforts.[1]
An election campaign
Acton’s party was registered in Langeberg Municipality to contest the 18 May 2011 local government elections, its first.[1][2]Acton and a fellow party executive already had dagga possession cases pending from earlier busts by local police.[2]
Case data
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Police searching a small holding in Vyfhoek, Potchefstroom, found a hydroponic dagga laboratory with dagga and plants they valued at R10 million, plus rifles and homemade explosives, and arrested a 29-year-old man. He appeared in the Potchefstroom Magistrate's Court on 19 November 2024 on dagga and firearms charges and was remanded in custody.
A multidisciplinary SAPS team raided a small holding in Magaliesburg on 18 July 2024 and dismantled a fully operational hydroponic cannabis laboratory valued at about R40 million. Seven suspects of five nationalities were arrested with plants, chemicals, equipment, a signal jammer and ammunition.
