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Africa Policy Week 2023 – Part One – A Quick-ish Overview

By |2023-08-29T09:08:01+02:00August 29th, 2023|

Africa Policy Week 2023 kicked off on a fine Monday evening with introductory presentations and a sobering keynote address by former president Kgalema Motlathe. Shaun Shelly, a true giant in Drug Policy reform and founder of SA Drug Policy Week, chaired the Opening Plenary. Shaun reflected on how, since its inception in 2016, Drug Policy

Captain, our Captain Green

By |2023-07-03T08:38:05+02:00July 3rd, 2023|

    With big shoes to fill and bigger dreams to fulfil, Julian Stobbs left an incredible mark on those who knew him. Indeed, he influenced even those of us who never got to know him or fight beside him. Standing always besides Myrtle, Jules helped shape Cannabis history for the better in South Africa.

Youth – we rise with fiya in our hearts!

By |2023-06-16T11:01:19+02:00June 16th, 2023|

Today we take time to remember those before us . . . Our history as a recently democratic nation is rooted in Racism and Inequality. Policies from the apartheid era have left a legacy of inequity, unemployment, and - for lack of a better word - absolute fear.  We, the youth of South Africa,

YOUTHENASIA – Is this the best we can do?

By |2023-06-16T09:11:18+02:00June 16th, 2023|

Dagga is Gagga - this was the main campaign when I was in school. I was raised in the relatively conservative white-Afrikaans parts of the Western Cape, with the stuttering murmurs of a recently overthrown apartheid regime trying to claim relevance.  Each year when 16 June would come about, I

Fare thee well, Schindlers, old pal

By |2023-05-11T11:51:40+02:00May 11th, 2023|

Take a walk with us . . . Back to the very beginning . . . The year is 2013 and it is time to register South Africa’s first Cannabis Legalisation Non-Profit Company.  We are still buried deep in the prohibition of our favourite Plant, seeing up to 1,000 arrests A DAY!  The task

Thank You for a Month of Proudly Green Memories

By |2021-07-01T14:22:49+02:00April 28th, 2021|

After a month of celebrating 420, the plant and it's people, our Full Spectrum Manifesto for Policy Reform: Cannabis in South Africa: The People’s Plant, is officially launched! Thank you to each and every person who liked, shared, attended, donated, called, messaged and smoke signalled - we appreciate you all so

Happy 420: The Meaning of Our Favourite Day

By |2021-04-23T12:24:46+02:00April 20th, 2021|

The 420 term often appears in counterculture as a code word for Cannabis. Several clocks in the pawn shop scene in the movie “Pulp Fiction,” for instance, are set to 4:20. From movies to music to surf and skate culture, video games and Rastafarianism, the term 420 is difficult to avoid if you have

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