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SOME daring students are said to be using soaps to make drugs at some schools, H-Metro can reveal.
Yesterday, we reported that some schools had banned foodstuffs, such as cereals and water, as a way to curb the drug menace among students.
However, it has emerged that some students are using the ‘green bar and Jade soaps’ as part of a cocktail of mixtures, to create the illegal substances.
Some students have been suspended or expelled from schools as a result of drug use in recent months.
Schools are now beginning to take a tougher stance in an effort to prevent students from making some homemade illicit drugs.
Riverton School in Masvingo and Wise Owl are some of the schools which have taken a hard-line stance by banning tuck.
Some parents have complained that the banning of foodstuffs from outside would be expensive for them as they would not afford the extra charges from schools.
However, more schools are adopting a similar stance to address the rampant drug and substance abuse by students.
“What Wise Owl and Riverton schools have done is spreading to other schools since the drug menace is ravaging almost every school.
“Vamwe took other measures, but the students are now using soaps like Jade and green bars to make illicit substances,” said one parent.
Students also combine cereals, which contain sugar and sorghum, with yeast and brown sugar, and ferment the mixtures as illicit brews.
The alcohol from these concoctions is extremely potent.
“Some schools only allow Chompkins and don’t want Cerevita, cornflakes and all other cereals.
“The students are also sniffing glue, while some use irons to pop some corn which they mix with marijuana,” said a source.
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