Spanish Take on South African Cannabis: One Big Lab Experiment that Everybody is Keeping a Close Eye On
The Spanish online magazine Canamo says South Africa is defining cannabis in its own new way that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. It says what South Africa is more than just a curiosity for the Spanish-speaking world, it’s a living laboratory where new ways of exploring and interacting with the plant are unfolding.
Cannabis Arrests Continue: Police Reform Project Aims to Change SAPS From Within
The Police Reform Project is to take its crusade to the Constitutional Court and has called on all cannabis stakeholders in Gauteng to gather at Constitutional Hill on 27 February 2026. This emerged from the Project Indlela webinar on legacy cannabis communities where there were repeated calls for mobilization against police harassment.
It’s All About Business: Legacy Communities Want an Immediate Halt to Police Harassment and the Freedom to Trade Cannabis Legally
From Western Mpondoland to the West Coast, from the Cape Flats to rural Limpopo, representatives of legacy cannabis communities are in strong agreement on one point: stop the police harassment immediately and allow the commercial trade in cannabis products. This came out of the Project Indlela stakeholder webinar held earlier this week on inclusivity in cannabis reform.
SA Now the Most Corrupt Country in Africa After the DRC
South Africa is second only to the DRC in the Top 10 African countries worst hit by organized crime. ENACT, which released its 2025 survey findings, says SA’s rating places it among the continent’s countries most vulnerable to ‘state capture’, reflecting deep-rooted criminal networks and systemic challenges.
Hemp Now Officially an Agricultural Crop, So Why is SAPS Still Involved in Permit Process?
The requirement that SAPS be part of the hemp permit approval process is constitutionally unsound and should not be part of the amended Plant Improvement Act. The Act defines cannabis for non-medical purposes as an agricultural crop under the control of the Department of Agriculture. So why, then is SAPS still involved?
SACHIDA: New Hemp Regulations are Great, But Grassroots Challenges Still Have to be Addressed
Raising of THC limits in hemp to 2% will make exports more difficult but will spur the development of the local market. This is the view of SACHIDA founding member Cian McLelland, who provides the lowdown on the positives and negatives facing SA industrial cannabis now the new regulations are in place.
The Health and Wellness Consumer Revolution is Dismantling Cannabis Stigma in South Africa
Cannabis is mainstreaming itself through the growing consumer health and wellness market. More people are turning to nature for solutions to the stress of everyday life and cannabis is one component in a broad consumer movement that is turning to non-pharmaceutical and organic alternatives for mental and physical health.
New Plant Improvement Act Comes into Force, THC Limit in Hemp Now Officially 2%
Wide sweeping reforms to South Africa hemp regulations have come into effect, unblocking some of the major obstacles to getting the sector going. Under the new Plant Improvement Act, cannabis becomes an agricultural crop and the acceptable THC limit in hemp has been raised tenfold to 2%.
Last Minute Switch of Buyers for Labat’s Cannabis Assets, New Deal Won’t Need Shareholder Approval.
Labat says Brian van Rooyen’s All Trading Propriety has withdrawn its offer for the group’s cannabis assets and that a revised offer has been accepted from 64P Investments for R10 million. In terms of the deal, Labat will not require shareholder approval for the sale as 64P is not deemed to be a ‘related party’
Pharma Corporates Appointing Themselves as the Global Gatekeepers of Cannabis, This is Not Good for Farmers
Cannabis reform was meant to be about empowering farmers but instead it’s empowering Pharma. Across the world Big Pharma is rewriting the agricultural handbook. It not only wants a slice of the cannabis action, it wants to own the plant and control access too. Now, the hands that once nurtured the plant are being told they are no longer clean enough to touch it.