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Homegrown vs Big Pharma: Who stands to benefit from the legal market for medical marijuana?

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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
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Cannabis Bill carries harsh penalties

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The Bill, which was passed by cabinet last week, caps private, personal home possession of cannabis at 600g a person, or 1.2kg of dried cannabis per household
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Legalising the cannabis economy takes a Covid-19 hit

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The lockdown has prevented public consultations and parliamentary committee meetings on the commercial use of marijuana and hemp
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Southern Africa’s cannabis industry offers opportunity for open-minded investors

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The stigma around the plant needs to be addressed and citizens involved in new policies and processes in order for the market to change
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The Portfolio: 4.20 Delights Baker

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In about 2015, I was working in another country and it was frustrating that you couldn’t access cannabis. When I returned, I felt it...
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Paddy Harper: On life in the time of coronavirus

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Between load-shedding and the Covid-19 pandemic, things are bleak. At least I’ve stocked up on cannabis
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Cremation, crime and cannabis

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Sugar barons going down and the new marijuana Bill are timely distractions from thinking about the old man
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No legal sales in new cannabis Bill

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Draft regulations do not allow for commercial cultivation or sale, but policy could change this
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Green justice for all

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Dagga’s illegality here and in the United States was racist and the new cannabis industry doesn’t include those who were jailed for using it
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Bobi Wine, live in concert

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This is the show that the Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, does not want you to see
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Hawks bust cannabis lab

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The Canapax chain owner, who claims to be a traditional healer, has been arrested
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A day for getting high on emotion

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September 18: the day dagga was decriminalised and the day that the ConCourt reconfirmed beating a child is illegal
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Let’s change SA’s mind on psychedelics

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The major hurdle is not so much an absence of science, or safety, as it is unthinking religious, moral or cultural panic
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Dagga: Push for legality and legitimacy

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On September 18 2018, the Constitutional Court decriminalized the private use and cultivation of cannabis in private spaces.
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Slice of life: ‘Cannabis calm saved me’

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Today, I’m a weed activist. I’ve seen the injustice of really, really good people getting fucked by really bad laws
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