Cannabis For Private Purposes Bill

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…