The new Bill for using cannabis privately should be scrapped as it ignores the needs of rural farmers, Rastafarians and traditional healers, says the Global Cannabis March Movement (GCMM).
Trenton Birch, CEO of Cheeba Cannabis Academy, said commercialisation would drive employment and bolster the economy.
“We have the land, the climate and the manpower to become a serious large scale cultivator, especially for hemp, which requires large tracts of land to be used and needs a trained workforce to deliver.”
But South Africa is moving “unacceptably slowly” towards this commercial market, Birch said.
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