In total, 420 items depicting a cannabis leaf have been seized in the past 30 months. That’s almost one every two days.

Although a cannabis leaf is not offensive nor obscene, it falls under the prohibited goods customs law. Other items on the list include weapons, the deadly herbicide Paraquat and rice and sugar from certain counties.

The law states: “The import of all goods depicting or bearing, whether expressly or by implication, any reference to ganja or the ganja plant is prohibited, except where the goods depict or bear reference to any cannabis extract or tincture of cannabis.”