It’s now legal for South Africans to grow and use cannabis. The next battle — making it legal to trade. The continent is watching. Just one day before the historic ballot, President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the Cannabis for Private Purposes Act, making South Africa the first African nation to legalise the use of marijuana.
But after years of campaigning and negotiations, activists say the fight is not over yet.“[Ramaphosa] finally found his pen at last, and cannabis is no longer classified as a dangerous, dependence-producing substance in South Africa,” Myrtle Clarke, co-founder of Fields of Green for ALL, an NGO which campaigns for cannabis reform, told Al Jazeera Media Network from Johannesburg.
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