Earlier this month, the Superior Court of California in San Francisco awarded Dewayne Johnson US$250 million in punitive damages and about US$39 million in compensatory damages against American chemical company Monsanto after ruling that its famous herbicide Roundup gave the former school groundskeeper terminal cancer. During the trial, the jury heard evidence on how Monsanto deliberately withheld information about the cancer-causing effects of Roundup from the public for decades.