Lesotho Rising: New Markets Await as MG Health and LuCan Labs Awarded EU GMP Certification
Lesotho’s cannabis revival has been given a huge boost with independent EU-GMPCertification awarded to MG Health and LuCan Labs late last year. MG Health founder Andre Bothma, says the recognition is a major step forward in the company’s global cannabis strategy that will benefit the country as a whole.
Traditional Healer Turns to Public Protector to Recover R35 m Cannabis IP Assets Allegedly Destroyed by SAPS
Anthony Karoly Smida says cannabis saved his life and now the police are ruining it. The Vaal Triangle medicinal cannabis researcher and healer has registered a complaint with the Public Protector alleging ongoing SAPS harassment and the destruction of valuable cannabis research assets to the tune of R34 million.
Trending USA: Prerolls Replace Flower as the Most-Sold Cannabis Product Category
The cannabis industry has a new center of gravity. In 2025, pre-rolls became the most-sold product category in the United States by unit volume, closing the chapter on flower’s long-standing dominance and opening a new era shaped by speed, scale and brand execution.
State Lawyers Not Yet Ready to Take on Prince Challenge, Matter Now Set for 8 June 2026
The Western Cape High Court has denied a state request to remove the urgency status from Gareth Prince’s application calling for a halt to cannabis arrests and other changes to the law. Instead it’s given the State a deadline to respond and the matter will be heard again on Monday, 8 June 2026.
CAB’s Legal Hackles Rise as Botswana Govt Gives Civil Society the Cannabis Cold Shoulder
The Cannabis Association of Botswana is embarking on the lawfare route to force Government to recognize that civil society has a place in the development of a local cannabis economy. CAB has been waiting for a year to be registration and has decided to go to court to force the authorities to come clean on the delay.
Cannabis Act May Never See the Light of Day As Prince Throws a Legal Spanner in the Works
Critics have long-warned that the Cannabis Act is fundamentally flawed – from a constitutional and policy perspective. Although Gareth Prince’s Western Cape High Court challenge is not targeting the Act specifically, if it succeeds, South Africa’s first pass at a cannabis law will either have to be rewritten or replaced.