South African Army officer Col. Aubrey Levine publishes his findings on drug dependency in the South African Army in 1972.
Dagga appears to be the most prevalent narcotic and is used by most.
There is an extraordinary table in this document relating to the ‘severe’ use of the plant, severe being defined as someone who smoked more than 115g per week.
115g seems like a huge amount of Dagga to us.
It’s only one gram short of presumption of dealing. The 1992 Drugs and Drug trafficking Act states 116g and above is dealing.
It also states that in 1972, 250g of zol was only R5. So being a ‘severe’ smoker would only set you back about R4 a week.

Levine was later known as “Dr. Shock” for his part in the Apartheid government  “Aversion Project”, a project to ‘cure’ gay men of their homosexuality  by electrocution and chemical castration.
This lunacy later spread to ‘treating’ drug dependent South African servicemen from 1972 for a decade in remote barracks at Voortrekkerhoogte Military Hospital, Pretoria.
Levine left SA for Canada after the fall of the Apartheid regime and set up a psychiatric practice in Calgary.
He is now serving 5 years for child molestation. Once a monster, always a monster.

Download the Drug dependency in South African Servicemen here:
1.11 THE PATTERN OF DRUG-TAKING AMONG DRUG DEPENDENT SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL SERVICEMEN, Col. Aubr

And if you are interested on the gruesomeness of the Aversion Project you can find it here:
1.5 THE AVERSION PROJECT – PSYCHIATRIC ABUSES IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN DEFENCE FORCE DURING THE APART