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Cannabis hopes go up in smoke

Industry groups and experts are demanding the department of health withdraw its prohibition on foodstuffs containing cannabis and hemp

Seven quality signs to check before buying CBD juice in 2024

Consumers need to take responsibility for guaranteeing their own satisfying experience

Take it or leaf it: Laws prevent banks from financing the cannabis industry, however changes are on the cards. Photo: Getty Images

Banks can’t finance the cannabis industry

Once the Cannabis for Private Purposes Bill (tabled five years ago) is passed, marijuana can be removed from the Drugs Act

Morocco is one of the world’s top producers of cannabis, much of it making its way — discreetly — to Europe, by land and sea. (Photo by Sebastian Gollnow/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Hemp: From highs to new economic heights

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‘Gold rush’: The cannabis business is flourishing around the world, including in Colorado in the United States (above). Zimbabwe already has opened up the industry and South Africa is now following suit. Photo: Gallo Images

SA’s cannabis growers may bloom

The production of cannabis and hemp for medicinal and industrial purposes finally gets a boost from the government

Aftermath: Downtown Johannesburg was rocked by a blast that damaged the length of Bree Street. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Panyaza Lesufi: Cause of Joburg blast still unknown

The department of labour is investigating eGoli Gas, Sasol and Telkom as well as water and sewer entities that had pipelines underground

High time: The global medical cannabis industry is expected to generate $82.9-billion by 2027 and the International Monetary Fund has said cannabis is the 59th-largest economy in the world.

South African CBD company nets big deal in anticipation of cannabis-industry boom

Goodleaf has announced a major transaction with Highlands Investments, one of the first and largest growers of cannabis in Lesotho

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The Portfolio: 4.20 Delights Baker

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 would be great to eat cannabis or use it in a…

President of the WFPMA Pieter Haen spoke at the IPM convention

JHB’s nationalistic attitude rears its head in Fattis Mansions, Cape York incidents

Residents from both buildings were relocated to the fields of Wembley Stadium in Johannesburg South after losing their homes.

Demolitions in the Second Avenue precinct have given way for the Second Avenue Court Yard

Rejuvenating the inner city

The neeed for revitalising CBDs is more acute in South Africa.