SACHIDA: One Year On From the Hemp Foodstuff Ban, Let’s See That Setback as the Turning Point to Accelerated Reform

On 7 March 2025 the Minister of Health gazetted the disastrous ban on cannabis and hemp foodstuffs. The hastily-rescinded ban created havoc, confusion and financial losses. A year later, SACHIDA chairman Katlego Kgopotse (pictured here) refects that ‘The Ban’ should be remembered not so much as a setback but to provide a litmus test of how far we’ve come.

PRP Gears Up for the ‘Big Sell’: Getting SAPS to Accept New Community-Friendly Cannabis Policing Guidelines

FGFA is in the process of collating community input on post prohibition policing laws and the next step is the big one: selling the Police Reform Project (PRP) to SAPS itself. This is likely to happen mid-year and in the meantime the organization is calling for further community input on how cannabis policing can be improved.