Although South Africa accounts for a tiny percentage of global cannabis trade, it is an important part of the bigger picture, with cannabis markets in Europe, the UK, Israel and Australia. Cannabiz Africa reports on international developments affecting the African cannabis and hemp sector as well as consumer market trends of interest to South African operators.
Cannabis donors helping set up cannabis regulatory systems across the world are perpetuating the myth that they promote inclusivity. However, as guest contributor Lee Hymers’s research has shown, donor capital builds the walls of exclusion to enable corporate capital to buy the keys.
An elaborate marketing stunt from a New York marijuana business evidently fooled more than a few media outlets into believing that carrier pigeons would soon be deployed to make cannabis deliveries throughout New York City. Turned out it was a ‘fake’ campaign, but it sure achieved its marketing objectives.
Germany is looking to restrict telephonic prescriptions for medical cannabis as new Federal Drug Commissioner, Hendrik Streeck (pictured here) warns that lax controls are creating ‘dealers in white coats’. He says the system allows doctors to pump out cannabis prescriptions without proper consultations and this cannot continue.
Australia and Germany are moving in opposite directions on cannabis imports, as both scramble to deal with the runaway growth of their medical cannabis markets. Their revisited import quotas indicate that there may be regulatory divergence developing between the two countries which South African exporters should be aware of.
Steven Hocking of the Cannabis Law Report says that for the last 15 years, governments and corporates have been working to create a regulatory scenario that champions medical cannabis and pushes back against general adult use. He joins the dots from Canberra to Casablanca, Berlin to Bangkok and beyond.
In the wake of the recent US strikes on narco-boats in the Caribbean, that most mainstream of magazines, The Economist, argues that brute force is no match for today’s high tech drug runners and a fundamental rethink is required. It proposes that the best way to hit organized crime is by taking the profit incentive out of the product and that legalizing cocaine would be such a mechanism.
The United States may be the first country to formally introduce the endo-cannabinoid system (ECS) into medical student training programmes. This comes as ongoing scientific breakthroughs in medical cannabis research expose deep gaps in the way medicine is taught at mainstream universities.
The latest report on the global cannabis industry says the market is continuing its spectacular growth trajectory, driven by growing legalization internationally and increasing demand for medical cannabis.
Guest columnist Lee Hymers takes a deep dive into the exclusionary patterns that drive global cannabis reform. Across the globe, the story is the same: regulatory systems favour a concentration of power amongst the big players to the exclusion of legacy growers, communities and entrepreneurs.
A new US study has revealed that older people drink more THC Beverages than Gen Z’ers and Millennials do. It’s also found an interesting alcohol-reduction pattern amongst cannabis drink consumers, over a third of whom are 55 years and older.
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