Tag: south africa

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Written by Johnny Green on August 15, 2025. Posted in Science.

South African Researchers Detect “Rare Compounds” In Cannabis Leaves

The leaves of cannabis plants are often considered to be waste by some cannabis cultivators and destroyed. However, recent research...

Written by Johnny Green on August 9, 2025. Posted in Business, Policy.

Advocates Push For Private Cannabis Clubs In South Africa

South Africa is on a short but growing list of countries that have adopted national adult-use cannabis legalization measures. South...

Written by Johnny Green on July 25, 2025. Posted in Business.

South Africa Is Studying Cannabis Business Development Opportunities

South Africa officially approved a national adult-use cannabis legalization measure in 2024, placing the African nation on an exciting...

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Written by Johnny Green on June 13, 2025. Posted in Business, Policy.

South African Authority Warns Against Fraudulent Service Providers

As South Africa’s emerging legal cannabis industry continues to increase in size and scope, the nation’s regulators are...

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Written by Johnny Green on May 14, 2025. Posted in Business, Policy.

South African Province To Prioritize Cannabis Industry Job Creation

South Africa’s government released updated employment data yesterday, with the official unemployment rate increasing by 1.0...

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Written by Johnny Green on May 9, 2025. Posted in Business, Policy.

South Africa To Release New Cannabis Food Regulations After Backlash

South Africa is on a short list of countries that have adopted national adult-use cannabis legalization measures, along with Uruguay,...

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Written by Hazel Norman on March 16, 2025. Posted in Business, Policy.

South Africa Department Of Health Bans Cannabis Edibles

South Africa is on a short list of countries that have adopted national adult-use cannabis legalization measures. The African nation is...

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Written by Hazel Norman on January 6, 2025. Posted in Policy.

South African Human Rights Commission Urges Police To Halt Cannabis Arrests

Last year South Africa became the latest country to adopt a national adult-use cannabis legalization measure, codifying a prior landmark...

Written by Hazel Norman on May 28, 2024. Posted in Policy.

South Africa’s President Signs ‘Private Setting’ Cannabis Legalization Measure

Back in 2018, South Africa’s Constitutional Court issued a landmark ruling that deemed cannabis prohibition as it pertained to...

Written by Johnny Green on November 20, 2023. Posted in Policy.

Legalization Measure Moves Forward In South Africa

In September 2018 South Africa’s Constitutional Court issued a landmark ruling in which it determined that cannabis prohibition as...

Written by Hazel Norman on April 16, 2023. Posted in Policy.

South Africa Is Seeking Public Input Regarding Cannabis Reform

In late 2018, South Africa’s Constitutional Court issued a historic ruling. In a case involving three cannabis consumers facing...

Written by Johnny Green on September 26, 2022. Posted in Policy.

Activists Planning Legal Action To Fully Legalize South Africa’s Cannabis Industry

Cannabis activism and advocacy can come in many forms. I have worked to reform cannabis laws for many years now and have helped promote...

Written by Marguerite Arnold on July 5, 2022. Posted in Policy.

Employment Law And Cannabis In South Africa

An employment case over personal (and medical use) has caught the attention of a country in transition on cannabis reform The issue of...

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Written by Johnny Green on June 9, 2022. Posted in Business, Policy.

South Africa Supreme Court Reviews Cannabis Cultivation Club Case

South Africa’s Supreme Court is reviewing a case that could have significant implications for the future of the nation’s...

Written by Frank Schuler on June 4, 2022. Posted in Policy.

South Africa Department Of Justice: Cannabis Industry Not Our Domain

In the fall of 2018, South Africa’s Supreme Court determined that cannabis prohibition as it pertained to personal use by adults in...

Written by Johnny Green on May 3, 2022. Posted in Archives, Business, Policy.

Request For Proposals For Cannabis Businesses Requested By South African Government

The Gauteng provincial government and the federal Department of Agriculture and Rural Development have requested interested parties to...

Written by Marguerite Arnold on April 27, 2022. Posted in Business, Politics.

South Africa Approves First Cannabis Pharmacy

The pharmacy, located in Johannesburg, supplies card-carrying medical cannabis patients and is registered with federal authorities South...

Written by Johnny Green on March 6, 2022. Posted in Politics.

South Africa’s Constitutional Court Tackles Youth Cannabis Possession And Use

South Africa is one of at least three countries that had landmark cannabis court rulings issued in recent years that determined national...

Written by Marguerite Arnold on February 16, 2022. Posted in Politics.

South Africa’s President Promises Forward Cannabis Reform In State Of Union Speech

New, pro-business cannabis reform has been prioritized by President as a means of economic development and post-Covid rescue of the...

Written by Marguerite Arnold on November 16, 2021. Posted in Science.

South Africa Examines Hemp Production To Clean Up Gold Mining Areas

As part of an overall plan of including cannabis in its economic development plan, the government is currently examining how (and if)...

Written by Marguerite Arnold on October 19, 2021. Posted in Business.

South African Producer To List On Johannesburg Stock Exchange

In a first of its kind, a Gauteng based cannabis producer has listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) Tuesday October 12 last...

Written by Marguerite Arnold on September 21, 2021. Posted in Medical.

South Africa Gets Its First Cannabis Pain Patient

Kwanda Mtetwa has become South Africa’s first legal cannabis patient – receiving the prescription to treat his chronic pain...

Written by Johnny Green on May 18, 2021. Posted in Business.

‘Cannabis Master Plan’ To Be Presented In South Africa

Cannabis reform is spreading across the African continent slowly but surely. There’s still a tremendous amount of work left to be...

Written by Marguerite Arnold on April 13, 2021. Posted in Politics.

South Africa Set To Legalize Recreational Use By 2023

The country is looking to the industry to help revitalize an economy wrecked by Covid. South Africa is lining up to join the list of...

Written by Johnny Green on September 8, 2020. Posted in Politics.

South Africa’s Parliament To Miss Cannabis Legalization Vote Deadline

As it stands only Canada and Uruguay have legalized cannabis for adult use. The two nations’ legalization model differs in many...

Written by Johnny Green on August 10, 2020. Posted in Politics.

South Africa Cabinet Approves Measure To Regulate Private Cannabis Use

As of right now, there are only two countries that have legalized cannabis for adult use. Uruguay was the first (2013) and Canada was...

Written by Marguerite Arnold on February 24, 2020. Posted in Politics.

South Africa’s President Charts New Path For Cannabis In Political Speech

Unlike politicians in other places, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa included cannabis in his State of the Nation...

Written by Marguerite Arnold on November 12, 2019. Posted in Business.

South African Police Crack Down On Illicit Cannabis Industry

If there is a truism in the world of cannabis, it is that if you give the cannabis industry the slightest crack and it will flow...