South Africa occupies a unique position in the rapidly developing legal cannabis market. With a government that seeks to legalize and develop the cannabis and hemp sectors as a sunshine industry and a private and community sector desperately willing to engage, this should be a match made in heaven. Yet the country finds itself in a regulatory quagmire with market forces, both legal and illegal, now in control. Cannabiz Africa is your front row on the torturous journey towards a regulated adult-use commercial market.
Morocco’s pragmatic approach to developing a domestic pharmaceutical industry has catapulted it into an African leadership position. Biomuti founder Tebogo Thlopane writes that South Africa needs to wake up to the fact that Africa’s medicine map is being redrawn by actions, not slogans.
The DA in Limpopo has called for the Independent Police Investigate Directorate to probe SAPS involvement in the illicit distribution of cannabis. This comes after a Carolina officer was bust by Groblersdal SAPS for a major cannabis haul en route to Mussina.
Gareth Prince is headline speaker at the Cheeba Cannabis and Hemp Summit 2026 which runs alongside the Cannabis Expo in Gauteng at the end of the month. The one-day event features over 30 speakers in what’s being billed as a powerful platform for deal-making, policy dialogue and investment alignment.
The upcoming Cannabis Expo 2026 is a chance for the public to participate in the national conversation about cannabis commercialization. Speakers booked for the Open Stage include the DTIC, which will outline its plans for adult-use regulations while other speakers will deal with the practicalities of running a cannabis business.
The unregulated explosion of cannabis edibles on the market is going to turn into a larger public health issue unless government acts urgently to regulate the sector. That’s the view of H3 Solutions, which has drawn up a draft legal framework for cannabis edibles which it has presented to the Department of Health and other departments in the ‘cannabis cluster’.
South Africa is to introduce ‘track-and-trace’ regulations for the first time in its consumer protection framework. Although these are being devised to crack down on the trade in illicit goods in the short-term, ‘track-and-trace’ is likely to be a key feature of cannabis compliance in upcoming legislation.
Child Welfare Chatsworth is reviewing its event protocols after a formal complaint from a mother who’s child was given a cannabis edible at the organization’s biggest annual fund-raising event. A cannabis edibles stall was a registered vendor, but it’s unclear whether it was responsible for the incident.
On Saturday, 2 May 2026, the streets of Johannesburg came alive as cannabis activists, industry leaders, artists, entrepreneurs and supporters gathered for the Jo’burg leg of the Global Cannabis March. This report from FGFA’s Joanne Parry.
The wine industry should wake up to the fact that it is competing with the cannabis sector in the ‘taking the edge off the day’ space. That’s the view of veteran wine writer Christian Eedes, who says wine retailers could take a lesson from the level of service, product knowledge and quality of customer interaction at many ‘Grey Zone’ cannabis outlets.
If we’re going for the record books here, just how much cannabis can be transported in a Toyota Quantum? It would be hard to beat the challenge from Mpumulanga this week, in which a minibus taxi stopped by police near Graskop was found to be carrying 1 025,36 kg of bagged weed.
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