Last week the South African cannabis and hemp conversation moved on two tracks at once. On one track, police operations generated fresh headlines and widely shared posts — hydroponic laboratories dismantled, multi-million-rand consignments seized, foreign nationals arrested. On the other, the slower work of building something different continued: young teams developing local hemp seed and […]
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Namibia’s primary legislation remains the Abuse of Dependence-Producing Substances and Rehabilitation Centres Act 41 of 1971 — an apartheid-era statute inherited at independence. Cannabis production, use and trade are prohibited. Despite public submissions from civil-society groups (including Rastafari and medical-cannabis associations) calling for reform, and despite regional movement all around it, Namibia has not yet […]
In 2010, Myrtle Clarke and Julian “Jules” Stobbs were raided at their home on the outskirts of Johannesburg and arrested for possession and dealing in dagga. They could have paid a fine, pleaded, or gone quiet. Instead they did something rarer. They turned the case around and sued the state. What followed became known as […]
Gauteng – 28 August 2026 Gauteng police have arrested five foreign nationals and shut down a sophisticated hydroponic dagga laboratory valued at more than R1 million in De Deur, Sedibeng District. The intelligence-driven operation took place on Thursday, 27 August 2026. Officers from Gauteng Counter-Intelligence Narcotics, Gauteng Organised Crime, the West Rand K9 Unit, the […]
A Facebook post currently circulating (https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18WFAHxVSP/?mibextid=wwXIfr) has once again drawn attention to the steady rhythm of police operations targeting cannabis in South Africa. Whether the specific post highlights a particular seizure, an arrest, or community reaction to enforcement, it sits inside a much larger and still unresolved pattern: almost eight years after the Constitutional Court […]
Zambia enacted the Cannabis Act 2021 to regulate the cultivation, manufacture, production, storage, distribution, import and export of cannabis for medicinal, scientific or research purposes. Recreational use remains illegal. The framework is licence-based and controlled, consistent with the broader Southern African pattern of opening medical and industrial channels while maintaining criminal controls on unlicensed activity. […]
A Facebook post currently circulating (https://www.facebook.com/share/1BWUntXqMG/?mibextid=wwXIfr) adds another voice to the ongoing discussion about South Africa’s emerging cannabis and hemp sector. In a landscape still shaped by constitutional rights recognised in 2018, incomplete commercial frameworks, national dialogues on SMMEs and red tape, persistent enforcement actions, and the practical work of pioneers trying to build actual […]
Mozambique has historically maintained a prohibitive stance, with cannabis controlled under older narcotic-drugs legislation. In recent years the country has featured in regional discussions about medical and industrial potential, particularly given its agricultural base and coastal access. Concrete, fully operational nationwide licensing frameworks for medicinal cannabis or industrial hemp have moved more slowly than in […]
On a smallholding outside Walkerville, south of Johannesburg, the air is alive with birds. Thousands of them nest in a dense stand of sturdy stalks whose seven-fingered leaves form a living canopy. This is not a recreational cannabis grow. It is the working farm and processing site of Green Route Hemp Industries, a young South […]
A new share circulating on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/share/1BhmuzZyYT/?mibextid=wwXIfr) adds another layer to the ongoing public conversation about cannabis in South Africa. In a landscape still defined by incomplete implementation, court processes, national dialogues and community organising, posts like this one serve as living updates from the people most directly affected. South Africa’s cannabis story is no […]