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BREAKING: South Africa – Cannabis for Private Purposes Bill is under consideration today
Nearly five years after the ConCourt decision in 2018, the National Assembly will debate the Cannabis for Private Purposes Bill today, Tuesday, 14 November, 2023.
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BREAKING: Highlands Investments, one of Africa’s largest outdoor cannabis-growing facilities is for sale
Highlands Investments in Lesotho, will be auctioned this month. The company was formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of Canopy Growth Corporation. The company operates GAP
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BREAKING: eThekwini Municipality encouraging residents to enter cannabis and hemp sector
The city recently issued an invitation to prospective farmers, indicating that hemp and cannabis seeds will be provided for a trial period. The eThekwini Agribusiness
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BREAKING: More than 600 KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) cannabis and hemp farmers were granted permits to cultivate, store and transport the product with a tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content of not more than 0,2%.
A total of 664 farmers were recipients of the hemp permits. Additionally, several local businesses who will be providing services to permit recipients received R300
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BREAKING: KwaZulu-Natal provincial government will this weekend host a cannabis conference in Bergville
Government funding agencies, including the KZN Growth Fund, Ithala Bank and Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal will be part of the two-day conference, which starts at
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BREAKING: A Depressing Update in Zim
The situation on production and distribution of cannabis is equally crooked and almost dysfunctional at the moment. Just recently, stakeholders held a meeting in Harare
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Breaking: Insight into the Export of Cannabis from South Africa
In this episode of Farmer’s Inside Track, Shaad Vayej, CEO of Onlyfarms and attorney at Cullinan & Associates, shares some key things that farmers should
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The KwaZulu-Natal government is turning to marijuana in the fight against unemployment
The cannabis sector could be the catalyst that rural communities in KwaZulu-Natal and South Africa have been waiting for to grow their local economies and
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Eastern Cape Dillemma
The cannabis industry in the Eastern Cape of South Africa is under scrutiny for allegedly excluding local cannabis growers. A video featuring interviews with these
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