It seems every home in this country has a drug addict from anything like marijuana to hard core drugs such as mandrax. For a long while Botswana was just a transit country for drugs from countries like Zambia and Tanzania. It was not easy going through the country in the 1980s as customs officials were always on their toes. South Africa was their destination.
Amazingly, drugs in all forms have become a part of life in Botswana at a time when we have so much technology to detect them at entry points. In the 1980s there were no scanners at our border posts and not even at the airports. But security was tight.
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