Items tagged with south africa
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| Mboweni says ‘legalize it!’ as he dares cops to arrest him for growing dagga [03.02.2020] | In a series of tweets on Sunday, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni uploaded photos of dagga plants growing on his farm in Limpopo, which he explained wer ... |
| SA and legal cannabis: profits should be reaped, but like any industry, there are also risks [21.01.2020] | South Africa’s cannabis conversation is shifting into a new gear, with Finance Minister Tito Mboweni on the record as pushing for full legalisation. ... |
| Sars would benefit if growing cannabis is legalised, says Tito Mboweni [18.01.2020] | Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s tweet about pushing for it to be legal to grow cannabis - for the SA Revenue Service’s sake - is a step in the direct ... |
| South Africa's black farmers fight to enter marijuana market [08.01.2020] | Following the Constitutional Court's decision in 2018 to decriminalize the personal use and cultivation of cannabis in South Africa, there are concer ... |
| South Africa’s budding cannabis industry is waiting for regulations to catch up [20.10.2019] | South Africa’s budding cannabis industry has made huge strides over the last year since the Constitutional Court upheld South Africans’ right to priv ... |
| Dagga prohibition needs to end [15.10.2019] | Despite the far-sighted rulings by Judge Dennis Davis and two colleagues in the Cape High Court, and then the unanimous Constitutional Court, that al ... |
| “People feel betrayed”: small-scale dagga growers fear exclusion from legal trade [14.10.2019] | As South Africa looks to enter the booming commercial cannabis market, which could be worth up to R27 billion locally by 2023, the Eastern Cape Depar ... |
| Legalisation is killing our market, say small-scale dagga growers [04.10.2019] | No one knows with confidence how many small-scale cannabis farmers there are in South Africa, but the number is large: one organisation estimates 900 ... |
| A new approach to criminalisation could end Cape Town’s drug wars [27.08.2019] | It’s not known exactly how many gangs there are in South Africa’s Western Cape province, but gang membership has been estimated at more than 100 000. ... |
| Dagga high on new Eastern Cape premier’s list [19.06.2019] | A flourishing dagga industry is high on the agenda of new Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane, especially in the Pondoland area, where locals have be ... |
| 'Swazi Gold' dagga farmers fear new SA law could crush them [10.06.2019] | Mbuso has been growing cannabis for 14 years. He lives and tends the illicit crop in Swaziland, which is now known officially as Eswatini. Mbuso is j ... |
| The great green gold rush [16.03.2019] | In South Africa’s richest suburb, against the backdrop of dazzling tower blocks belonging to law firms and insurance companies, a brand-new industry ... |
| History of dagga in SA shows its decriminalisation is overdue [25.09.2018] | The Constitutional Court's decision that citizens are permitted to use dagga in private turned the clock back 96 years. Before it was declared a proh ... |
| Dagga cultivators aren’t too pleased about the court’s decision [25.09.2018] | Dagga growers in Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape are far from happy that the “holy herb” has been legalised for personal use, saying their businesses ... |
| South African court frees cannabis from colonial and apartheid past [23.09.2018] | A ruling by the South African Constitutional Court opens the way for decriminalising private use of cannabis, locally known as “dagga”. It marks a de ... |
| Let’s cultivate laws for a cannabis industry centred on uplifting the rural poor [19.09.2018] | The Constitutional Court judgment on cannabis probably made a lot of people happy because, across all sectors of society, people smoke weed and have, ... |
| ConCourt Cannabis Judgment: What was the reasoning and what does it mean? [18.09.2018] | The Constitutional Court decriminalised the possession and cultivation of cannabis in private by adults for personal private consumption in Minister ... |
| Dagga: ConCourt says yes to getting high in private [18.09.2018] | In a unanimous judgment, the Constitutional Court ordered that the private consumption and cultivation of cannabis be decriminalised. Deputy Chief Ju ... |
| Zimbabwe legalizes marijuana for medicinal, scientific uses [28.04.2018] | Zimbabwe has legalized the production of marijuana for medicinal and scientific purposes, making it the rare African country to turn the drug into a ... |
| NPA bids to have dagga ruling repealed [08.11.2017] | Tough questions are being asked about the dynamics of legalising cannabis as the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) seeks to repeal the ruling that ... |
| Ghana’s bold step away from the ‘war on drugs’ [13.10.2017] | Ghana is poised to become the first African country, and the first country outside of Europe and the Americas, to decriminalise the personal possessi ... |
| The green gold rush: Could Africa be on the verge of a weed race? [09.10.2017] | Several African governments are considering tapping a lucrative natural resource. More than 10,000 tons of cannabis are produced on the continent eac ... |
| Legal dagga process draaaags on [29.09.2017] | Businesses that want to get in on the ground floor of South Africa’s great medical marijuana revolution, or at least the legal one, are bound to find ... |
| Op-Ed: Marijuana farming – a silver bullet for rural poverty? [26.09.2017] | When marijuana farming is legalised in South Africa who will benefit? This is not just a hypothetical question. Right now, marijuana is being legally ... |
| Dagga laws are ‘racist and irrational’‚ court told [14.08.2017] | The South African law banning the smoking and cultivation of dagga is racist‚ unscientific and not rational or based on good law making. This was the ... |
| Dagga is not a gateway drug [07.08.2017] | The prohibition on dagga is the "gateway to harder drug use‚ not the use of cannabis itself"‚ Imperial College Professor David Nutt told the Pretoria ... |
| Why the South African state needs to lose its fight against marijuana policy reform [27.07.2017] | South Africa is among many countries facing challenges to their drug control policies, particularly around marijuana, known locally as dagga. The Med ... |
| Court set to revisit old dagga legislation [14.07.2017] | A highly anticipated court case later this month will revisit a 1928 South African law against cannabis – with the aim of legalising the plant for va ... |
| It's time to end SA's war on drugs [29.06.2017] | Bluetooth nyaope, dagga, dealers and associated rhetoric often dominate the headlines on the issue of drug use. The supply and consumption of drugs — ... |
| Police time and money go to pot [19.05.2017] | In 2015-2016, 259 165 people were arrested for drug-related crimes, according to the South African Police Service’s (SAPS) crime statistics. The poli ... |
| Dagga Judgment: There are less drastic ways to deal with its harmful effects [04.05.2017] | Until 1921 dagga was sold openly by mine storekeepers in the towns and grew wild in much of South Africa. It was banned partly because it was feared ... |
| Get high on own supply? [15.04.2017] | For years much of South Africa’s dagga has been grown on the green rolling hills of the east coast, often as what economist Vladislav Lakcevic calls ... |
| Dagga ruling leaves authorities in a haze [09.04.2017] | There is uncertainty among various government institutions around the Western Cape High Court’s ruling which allows for the possession, cultivation a ... |
| Understanding Judge Davis' dope judgment [02.04.2017] | On 31 March 2017, Justice Dennis Davis handed down a judgment in the Western Cape High Court that declared sections of the Drugs and Drug Trafficking ... |
| Dagga ban goes up in smoke - and so do some cases [01.04.2017] | Dagga aficionados - users of the intoxicating plant - may now legally grow and consume it in the privacy of their homes, without fear of arrest. In o ... |
| Dagga can be used at home, Cape court rules [31.03.2017] | In a much celebrated outcome, Judge Dennis Davies ruled that an adult may cultivate and use cannabis in the privacy of their own home. “The order als ... |
| De-schedule dagga to create jobs, says community [23.03.2017] | As the deadline for public comment on the guideline documents for cultivation of cannabis for medical use looms, an Eastern Cape community is calling ... |
| Why SA should follow Portugal and decriminalise drug use [17.03.2017] | The war on drugs in South Africa, as in the US, has in no way reduced the supply or the demand of drugs. And without a doubt it’s led to an increase ... |
| Medicinal cannabis gets the go-ahead [20.02.2017] | The government has given the green light for the manufacture of cannabis for medicinal use – with the IFP hailing it a “major victory” and tribute to ... |
| Cannabis users want same rights as smokers, drinkers [13.12.2016] | Cannabis users in South Africa want the same rights as alcohol drinkers and cigarette smokers to use the herb without fear of arrest, Dagga Party lea ... |
| Decriminalise dagga, says Central Drug Authority in 'bold step' [01.06.2016] | The Central Drug Authority has taken a definitive position on the use of dagga, and has called for it to be decriminalised. CDA Head researcher Profe ... |
| Cash crops poisoned in Pondoland [07.04.2016] | The villagers keep watch from January, waiting for police helicopters to thud over the hills. Every year, for nearly three decades, their plantations ... |
| Killing the economic lifeblood of the Eastern Cape's weed-producing people [26.03.2016] | In the mountains of Pondoland in the Eastern Cape, 'intsangu' is green gold: the key to the rural poor's economic survival. Why then, despite global ... |
| Elite ‘African Group’ in Vienna undermines AU drug policy [06.02.2016] | South Africa’s mission in Vienna submitted a minority reactionary “African Group” (AG) position on drug policy to the United Nations, despite the Afr ... |
| War on dagga puts rural people at toxic risk, specialists warn [18.03.2015] | The climate in the Wild Coast of the Eastern Cape in South Africa has made cultivating dagga (cannabis sativa) popular since people settled here cent ... |
| The Rise and Decline of Cannabis Prohibition [10.03.2014] | The cannabis plant has been used for spiritual, medicinal and recreational purposes since the early days of civilization. In this report the Transnat ... |
| The war on dagga sobers up [28.02.2014] | The apartheid regime was terrified of white people interacting with black people, and saw cannabis as a dangerous enabler. They ensured it stayed pro ... |
| Cannabis production and markets in Europe [26.06.2012] | This study brings together available evidence to provide a comprehensive analysis of cannabis production and markets across the EU. It combines infor ... |
| Time to decriminalise drugs? [01.02.2011] | The drug trade has increased globally in intensity and reach, and substance abuse in South Africa has escalated rapidly. Drug misuse is a major socia ... |
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