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Yet Again Labat Faces Suspension from the JSE Over Late Reporting
Labat Africa has until 30 September 2025 to publish its most recent financial results or its shares may be suspended. This warning came from the JSE as questions persist in the market as to how Labat’s subisidiary, CannAfrica, can legally justify its retail cannabis sales on the back of a SAHPRA research license.
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DTIC Says Public Comment on Cannabis Commercialization Policy Will Only Happen in April 2026.
The DTIC says the cannabis commercialization policy will be open for public comment only in April 2026 after Cabinet has signed off on it. DTIC spokesman Bongani Lukhele anticipates that after this a final commercialization bill will be presented to Parliament to sign into law in April 2027.
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Morocco: Big Regulatory Step Towards Legal Market as First Cannabis Products are Licensed
Morocco’s cannabis reform programme has taken a giant step forward with the approval of the first batch of cannabis-based products for domestic consumption. At the same time the National Agency for the Regulation of Cannabis Activities is stepping up its oversight role to ensure that cannabis businesses comply with minimum standards.
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Bad Even by Narco Standards: ‘Cereal Killer’ Made Millions from Infusing THC into Kids Popular Candy Brands
A US man has been jailed for his part in a huge clandestine operation which distributed popular cereal and candy brands infused with THC and butane hash oil. Prosecutors said that most normal drug traffickers wouldn’t be this reckless in trying to set up an international distribution network.
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Labat Still in Negotiation to Dispose Assets, Widely Believed to be the Group’s Cannabis Interests
Labat issued a cautionary six weeks ago advising shareholders that it was looking to cash in on certain assets. Market talk following a reissue of that cautionary, is that the company is offloading its cannabis interests which are deemed ‘high risk’ .
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Work Starts on Ntabankulu Cannabis Hub Aimed to Benefit Mpondoland Legacy Growers
The Department of Higher Education and Training has broken ground on an R80 million agricultural centre at Ntabankulu in the Eastern Cape that will serve also serve as a cannabis hub. The facility is being funded by the Wholesale and Retail Sector Education Training Authority (W&RSETA), as part of Government’s drive to include Mpondoland’s legacy growers in the cannabis value chain .
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Uganda Sativa Project Aims to Empower Thousands of Women Cannabis Farmers
Uganda’s hemp sector is being launched with an ambitious plan aimed at empowering women farmers. The Uganda Sativa Project, a private sector initiative, has caught the public imagination and is likely to be the core of the East African country’s cannabis policy.
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‘Prohibition Disguised as Regulation’: Free Market Foundation’s Tobacco Warning Holds True for Cannabis.
It’s often been said that the cannabis industry should be regulated in the same way that the tobacco industry is. Given what’s in the Tobacco Bill which is before Parliament, this would be a very, very bad idea. The Free Market Foundation says the Bill reflects the State’s accelerating ‘command and control’ approach that has little to do with consumer protection.
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President Urged to Enforce Cannabis Arrest Moratorium Following Ras Isa’s Death in SAPS ‘Incident’
Cannabis legal strategist Charl Botha has written to the President to urgently reinforce the moratorium on cannabis arrests following the death of a Cape Town Rastafarian leader during a police incident. He has requested the new Police Minister take oversight action and that the SAPS officers involved be held accountable.
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Thousands of Women Attend Uganda’s First Hemp Symposium
Thousands of women attended Uganda’s first industrial hemp symposium eager to get in at the grassroots of the new sector. The gathering, held in July, was organized by Mwamic General Enterprises which is pioneering a policy model aimed at empowering women farmers.
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