Flash update source: Ganja Prince / applicants’ communication, 15 September 2026 The court case of Prince and Others v Minister of Police and Others will not proceed today in the Western Cape High Court. According to a statement from the applicants’ side, the court-driven mediation process is still under way. The parties have agreed that […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Almost eight years after the Constitutional Court recognised the right of adults to cultivate and use cannabis in private, South African police continue to conduct regular raids on growers, small operations and suspected cultivation sites. These actions are routinely presented as successes in the fight against drugs. Yet when viewed through the lens of economic […]
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, […]
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 […]