The past week in South Africa’s cannabis conversation moved across several registers at once: roadside seizures and laboratory busts, the quiet growth of medical exports, a global call to centre children and young people in drug policy, the continued documentation of culture through Route 420 and Rolling Stoner, and a community appeal for scrutiny of […]
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In early September 2026 a BusinessTech headline captured public attention: draft regulations under the Cannabis for Private Purposes Act could allow adults to possess up to 750 grams of cannabis — roughly 1,500 standard joints. The number is memorable. It is also only one piece of a much larger, still-unfinished picture. Eight years after the […]
Zimbabwe moved earlier than many of its neighbours when it came to formalising parts of the cannabis sector. In 2018 the government issued Statutory Instrument 62 of 2018, creating a legal framework for the cultivation, processing and export of cannabis for medicinal and scientific purposes. The move was widely reported as one of the more […]