Associate Professor of Historical Studies, University of Johannesburg
What history teaches us about shaping South Africa's new cannabis laws
Dec 01, 2020 09:11 am UTC| Law
South African cannabis policy is currently at a crossroads. In 2018, the Constitutional Court effectively decriminalised private cannabis use. Since then, the government has continued to grapple with how to regulate this...
South African court frees cannabis from colonial and apartheid past
Sep 24, 2018 06:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
A ruling by the South African Constitutional Court opens the way for decriminalising private use of cannabis, locally known as dagga. It marks a definitive shift in a century of notoriously punitive drug policy, recognised...
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