27/06/2024
Another report from the UN around legalisation. The doomsday scenario is wrong! And the benefits are being revealed. More evidence supporting legalisation. Yet in South Africa we are denying a route to market for small scale legacy farmers, including the Mpondo people and other groups (e.g. Khoisan) who were persecuted for cannabis. Why? The 'public health / public safety' argument is getting weaker by the day. The SA Government must do what is good for the people (jobs, economic growth, transformation, inclusion etc), and adult use legalisation is the only quick way to ensure inclusion of small scale farmers in this new and exciting industry in my opinion. Trying to force legacy farmers into the industrial h**p market makes no sense at all. Allowing illict 'smoke shops' to operate all over the country retailing cannabis, while excluding small scale legacy farmers makes this situation even more illogical.
A separate, human rights-focused UN document urged member states to abandon the war on drugs. The report recommends that member states "decriminalize the use, possession, purchase and cultivation of drugs for personal use and move toward alternative regulatory approaches that put the protection of people’s health and other human rights front and centre.”
A new United Nations (UN) report on worldwide drug trends acknowledges that ma*****na legalization in the U.S. and Canada may have helped to shrink the size of illicit markets, while at the same time driving significant drops in the number of people arrested for cannabis offenses. It also notes the....
