Project Indlela’s 2 December webinar will examine practical ways of how future cannabis legislation should accommodate traditional and marginalized cannabis communities.
It has been organized by the South African Cannabis Club Alliance (SACCA), which has put together the programme below for the Google Meets two hour session which begins at 12h00. Cannabiz Africaa’s publisher Brett Hilton-Barber will MC the session with SACCA’s Albertus van Jaarsveldt as the main host.
Several government representatives have been invited to the webinar.
The session will hear testimonials from the following traditional organizations during the first hour:
1. Mpondoland Traditional Leadership (Confirmed)
2. Humcumqua Tribe – Cape Town (To be Confirmed)
3. Max Mellville – Rastafari House of Judah Leadership(Confirmed)
4. African Cultural Heritage Trust (To be confirmed)
5. National Khoi-San Council (To be confirmed)
The second part of the webinar will look at community innovations from the following:
1. Fields of Green for All – Rights of Rastafari Roundtable (Confirmed)
2. Grow One Africa – Mpondo Cannabis Belt Association(Confirmed)
3. Aaptwak – River and Estuary Clean up Campaigns (Confirmed)
4. Die Joint – Cannabis Social Club Community Initiatives (Confirmed)
5. Fields of Green for All – Police Reform Project (Confirmed)
The last part of the session will look at Project Indlela’s ‘solution framework’ which has a unified approach to inclusion, policing alignment, and economic access. The presentations will cover:
Shift from Medicinal → Responsible Adult Use
Introduce Cannabis Regulation & Economic Inclusion Act
Introduce Tiered Licensing structures for all relevant stakeholders
Introduce Mechanisms of inclusion & township economy development
Project Indlela will also introduce the concept of a national survey to gather data on the cannabis sector and explore the possibility of a Cannabis Regulatory Body which consists of government officials and civil society.
This is the second of the Project Indlela webinars which are aimed at unifying non-government stakeholders in shaping future cannabis stakeholders. The first one was attended by 130 stakehoders with the Deputy Minister of Public Adminstration Pinky Kekana and the DTIC represented by John Jeffery. Both acknowledged the importance of non-government stakeholders coming together to unify their interests and made a commitment that future cannabis policy will be fair and transparent – and include legacy communities.
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