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From the Legal Desk: Cannabis Bill Holds 'Seeds of Opportunity' for the Agricultural Sector
Leading South African law firm, Cliffe Decker Hofmeyer says the Cannabis for Private Purposes Act envisages a change to the Plant Improvement Act which will open up new opportunities, particularly in industrial cannabis, but that as the law now stands, there are still limitations to using the plant to its full potential
Belinda Scriba, Claudia Grobler, Luke Kleinsmidt of Cliffe Decker Hofmeyer
5 June 2024 at 06:00:00
This report was first published by CDM on 30 May 2024
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How to Strangle the Hemp Baby at Birth: Plant Improvement Act Exposed is an Insult to SA Cannabis Cultivation Culture, Ignores Years of Local Research and Forces Reliance on Untested Imported Genetics
It became clear during the Parliamentary hearings into the Cannabis Bill, that the real legislative rascal in the room is the Plant Improvement Act which ignores local research and forces growers to import seed instead of using local landraces for industral cannabis
Voice of Reason from Mpondoland: Chief Zwelinkhanyile Diko Tells Parliament: Keep it Simple, Just Classify Local Landraces as Industrial Cannabis
The Chief made his submission to Parliament on 23 May 2023, saying that local landraces were used for a variety of purposes, including industrial use. He appealed to MP's to support the Mpondoland legacy growers as they were being increasingly marginalized by cannabis reform.
Justice Dept Admits No Rational Evidence Behind Plant Limits in Cannabis Bill as State Lawyers Come Under Fire in Parliament
The Justice Department took flak in Parliament this week during stakeholder input into the Cannabis for Private Purposes Bill where it became evident that state law-makers are clueless as to what Government's intended vision for cannabis is. They remain conceptually and technically completely out of their depth - and lazy to boot as they have not bothered to bring any rational evidence to back up what is truly a pathetic legislative interpretation of the 2018 Constitutional Court ruling legalizing the private consumption of cannabis.
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