The new legislation finally removes cannabis from the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act
Once the Cannabis for Private Purposes Bill (tabled five years ago)
is passed, marijuana can be removed from the Drugs Act
Only ActionSA, Rise Mzansi and the Inkatha Freedom Party have shared their thoughts on the holy herb with voters
The father of two owns five cannabis stores in eThekwini and will soon open a sixth in the upmarket Durban North area
The decriminalisation of adult use in private was a relief to users who allege arrests are low-hanging fruit for police
The bill isn’t perfect but should be enacted without delay, given the reformative snowball it will set into motion
The boom in dispensaries and bud shops has seen traditional growers and sellers driven out of business while the government drags its feet
Jeremy Acton says the bill violates the 2018 constitutional court privacy judgment
Parties in the cannabis Phakisa event agree to a 30 June moratorium while regulations are put in place
Business and unions are set to participate in an Operation Phakisa meeting from Monday next week
Its favourable climate, loosening laws, arable land and pre-existing experience in farming and hemp production makes it a formidable force to reckon with
Proposed amendments to the Cannabis for Private Purposes bill allow for the creation of a commercial recreational cannabis industry
Cannabis is scheduled for its South African parole on September 18. Kelly McQue’s handy medical marijuana producers’ guide is an opening salvo against corporate medicine’s demand for exclusive rights to the plant’s healing powers