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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]