While courtrooms, national dialogues and community festivals continue to shape the formal side of South Africa’s cannabis story, another thread runs quietly through the culture itself: the work of documenting it. Rolling Stoner Magazine has become one of the clearest voices doing exactly that. Based in South Africa and built around the principles of authenticity, […]
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Around the world, 2026 has become a year of incomplete transitions. Nowhere is that clearer than in the United States, where the long-promised federal rescheduling of cannabis is grinding forward in fits and starts. In recent weeks the Drug Enforcement Administration released the full transcript of its administrative hearing on the Trump administration’s proposal to […]
In the long, winding story of cannabis reform in South Africa, some names become landmarks. Gareth Prince is one of them. His years of persistence helped deliver the 2018 Constitutional Court judgment that finally recognised the right of adults to cultivate and use cannabis in private. That victory changed the legal landscape forever. Yet the […]
There’s something quietly powerful about a courtroom moment that doesn’t end in a dramatic ruling or a press scrum. On Friday 31 July, the parties in the ongoing Ganja case — applicant Gareth Prince and the respondents — simply agreed to use the next 30 court days to work towards a way forward together. For […]