Children placed in lock-ups with Leguan mother arrested for ganja – lawyer tells court

A Leguan woman was yesterday charged for the alleged cultivation of cannabis and possession of the drug, for which her lawyer said both she and her two children, ages two and two months, had been held in lock-ups.

It is alleged that on February 21, at Leguan Island, Essequibo, Ashmini Persaud, 20, was found to be cultivating cannabis sativa