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Cannabis Sector Must Stop Blaming Govt For Everything and Overcome Our Own Factionalism
Heritage Day should mean something particular to South Africa’s cannabis sector. We cannot demand inclusion, investment and regulatory reform from government while allowing division, territorialism and competing interests within the industry to weaken the case we make together.
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Verulam Warning: Kids Are Being Targeted by Drug Dealers Posing as ‘Sweet Vendors’
KwaZulu Nata’s Verulam Community Police Forum has warned that drug dealers posing as ‘sweet vendors’ are selling cannabis to schoolkids in full view of the public. This comes after a man was arrested after dispensing cannabis flower to kids from biscuit buckets hidden among the sweets at his stall.
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The Struggle Beyond Legalization: Cannabis Reform and Economic Justice
Legalization and economic justice is becoming the major issue in cannabis reform across Africa. This was highlighted at Ghana’s Critical Cannabis Moment workshop held recently in Accra, at which FGFA was invited to participate. Here’s CEO Myrtle Clarke’s feedback.
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Morocco Struggling to Deal with Its Own ‘Mpondoland’ As Rif Valley Cannabis Farmer Dissatisfaction Grows
Morocco’s ‘Mpondoland’ is the Rif Valley in the north where cannabis has been grown for centuries. Although the Kingdom has put Rif farmers at the centre of its cannabis reforms, only a select few have been granted cultivation licenses and the majority of farmers remain criminalized and locked outside the system.
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SAHPRA Quietly Halts New Section 21 Medical Cannabis Approvals, Leaving Compliant Patients Without a Pathway
SAHPRA appears to have halted authorising all Section 21 medical cannabis applications for the past two months. This has created an uproar amongst genuine medical cannabis patients and service providers, who accuse SAHPRA of removing the only pathway to accessing medical cannabis without providing any alternative.
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US Hemp Industry Faces Disaster if Proposed Ban on Hemp Products Goes Ahead in December
In what must be one of the most bizarre regulatory developments, the US hemp industry is going to be decimated by a ban on hemp products due to take effect in December. Whitney Economics warns that the clampdown on hemp-derived THC products will cause about 68% of hemp businesses to fold.
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Kannelix Facilitates Farmer Training in Vaal Triangle Cannabis Commercialization Initiative
Cannabis mentoring company Kannelix has signed an MoU with the Vaal University of Technology to train 60 cannabis farmers in agro-processing and provide offtakes for their biomass. This is part of an MBOSA drive to mainstream traditional growers from the underground into the economic mainstream.
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USA: Complications and Confusion are Main Side Effects of Cannabis Rescheduling & ‘Intoxicating Hemp’ Regulations
Veteran medical cannabis campaigner Alice O’Leary Randall is the widow of the man who’s case saw the term ‘medical marijuana’ being used for the first time. Now, 50 years later, she takes a dim view of medical cannabis rescheduling in the US, which in her words is “batshit crazy’”
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Angolan Investors Invited to Seek Out Opportunities in Botswana’s New Industrial and Medical Cannabis Sector
Batswana Cabinet Minister, Tiroyaone Ntsima says Angola’s business community should consider investing in Botswana’s new industrial and medicinal cannabis sector. Even though cannabis is illegal in Angola, Ntsima said Angolan investment in Botswana cannabis would enjoy the same protection rights as in any other market.
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Ghana’s Dr Torvor: ‘Legalization Should Come With a Public Awareness Campaign to Break the Social Stigmas’
Ghanaian traditional healer Dr Christiana Torvor has called for a public awareness campaign around the benefits of medical cannabis and industrial hemp. She made the call during the launch of her new book in Accra, saying that the benefits of cannabis could only be unlocked if the social stigma was broken.
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