Kenya’s Cannabis Economy is Thriving and Uplifting the Rural Poor – Pity it’s Illegal!
Kenya has a stable, thriving cannabis retail market that links cities and villages, builds rural economies and offers the poor a means of wealth creation. Yet it’s all illegal in the eyes of the Nairobi government officials, who remain blinded to the plant’s potential in helping its own citizens.
GUN to Form New Political Party to Push for Namibian Cannabis Legalization After High Court Setback.
Ganja Users of Namibia president Brian Jaftha (pictured here) says his organization has decided to form a political party to push for the legalization of cannabis. This after the Windhoek High Court dismissed GUN’s challenge, saying the ultimate legalization decision should be taken by policy-makers, not the courts.
Windhoek High Court Dismisses GUN’s Application to Decriminalize Cannabis
The Windhoek High Court has dismissed the Ganja Users of Namibia (GUN) application to overturn colonial-era cannabis prohibition laws. However, this does not mean the State has rejected cannabis legalization; its lawyers successfully argued that this was a policy decision best handled by the legislature and not by the courts.
UN Identifies Kush Abuse as a West African Public Health Crisis Engulfing the Region’s Youth
Kush is the West African word for a high potency polydrug cocktail of cannabis laced with synthetic opioids such as nitazene. It’s high addiction rate has seen its use amongst the youth soar to such an extent that the UN has identified it as a public health crisis engulfing the region as a whole.
Mauritius: Hospitality Group Calls for Cannabis Legalization to Help Control Synthetics Substance Abuse
Mauritius has been hearing public submissions on relaxing it’s prohibitive cannabis laws. The Lalit Hospitality Group made a wide-ranging submission to the National Agency for Drug Control to halt arrests, create a regulated adult-use and medical cannabis sector and allow people to grow their own ‘gandya’.
UN Drug Report 2026: Illicit Operators Manipulating Legal Supply Chains; Potency and Polydrug Use on the Up
The recently released UN World Drug Report 2026 says illicit cannabis networks are increasingly riding on the back of legal cannabis supply chains and that synthetic cannabinoids have complicated the market. Cannabis remains the most widely trafficked drug, accounting for over 50% of global seizures.
Moroccan Movie About Kingdom’s Illicit Cannabis Trade Scoops Awards at Shanghai Film Festival
The Moroccan film, Halima, about the Kingdom’s illicit cannabis trade has swept Shanghai’s International Film Festival with Yassine El Idrissi (pictured here) and actress Khadija scooping the best director and best actress Golden Goblet awards respectively .
Tia Ramfate: Involve Communities in Creating a Truly African Cannabis Framework
Soweto Cannabis Association founder Tia Ramfate (pictured here) says community participation is essential in developing a uniquely African cannabis framework. She said South Africa could teach the world how to create a people-centric regulatory regime that was not locked into First World rules.
Swiss Cannabis Guru Urges Morocco to Legalize General Adult Use Consumption
Leading Swiss cannabis expert Paul-Lukas Good has urged Morocco to go take its cannabis policies to a logical conclusion and legalize general adult use consumption. He said the Kingdom had a sound cannabis reform trajectory but would not realise its true potential by developing only industrial and medical cannabis.
Beau Whitney: Press the Cannabis Regulatory Reset Button at the UN Level
Worldwide, one of the deepest problems in trying to regulate cannabis is that it is being defined in pharmaceutical terms and not recognized as a plant medicine. This will only be fixed at a United Nations level says leading cannabis economist Beau Whitney, in order to create a meaningful framework for regulation.