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

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

Cannabis activism and advocacy can come in many forms. I have worked to reform cannabis laws for many years now and have helped promote cannabis activism efforts all over the globe, and I have seen countless strategies and efforts be effective. The most logical form of cannabis advocacy is via the...

Employment Law And Cannabis In South Africa

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

An employment case over personal (and medical use) has caught the attention of a country in transition on cannabis reform The issue of cannabis use and employment is a sticky one. For Americans old enough to remember it, mandatory drug testing for most kinds of employment became a reality in the late...

South Africa Supreme Court Reviews Cannabis Cultivation Club Case

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

South Africa’s Supreme Court is reviewing a case that could have significant implications for the future of the nation’s emerging cannabis industry. The case involves an entity that started a private cannabis cultivation club shortly after South Africa’s Supreme Court issued a landmark...

South Africa Department Of Justice: Cannabis Industry Not Our Domain

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

In the fall of 2018, South Africa’s Supreme Court determined that cannabis prohibition as it pertained to personal use by adults in private settings was unconstitutional. While the decision did not extend to many other parts of cannabis policy, lawmakers in South Africa used it as an opportunity...

Request For Proposals For Cannabis Businesses Requested By South African Government

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

The Gauteng provincial government and the federal Department of Agriculture and Rural Development have requested interested parties to submit business partnership proposals As of April 29, the South African government has released an announcement that they are looking for proposals to “unlock...

South Africa Approves First Cannabis Pharmacy

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

The pharmacy, located in Johannesburg, supplies card-carrying medical cannabis patients and is registered with federal authorities South Africa is powering forward with its cannabis reform plans. The country has now authorized its first legal cannabis-only pharmacy. Located in Johannesburg, THC Pharmacy...

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

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

South Africa is one of at least three countries that had landmark cannabis court rulings issued in recent years that determined national cannabis prohibition to be unconstitutional. Mexico and Italy also had similar court decisions rendered by their top courts around the same time. For the decision...

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

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

New, pro-business cannabis reform has been prioritized by President as a means of economic development and post-Covid rescue of the economy South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa said in his state of the union speech last week that cannabis reform in the country is now at the top of the economic...

South Africa Examines Hemp Production To Clean Up Gold Mining Areas

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

As part of an overall plan of including cannabis in its economic development plan, the government is currently examining how (and if) cultivation of hemp can restore land blighted by gold extraction The University of the Witwatersrand is currently funding a study to determine if the cultivation of...

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