The recent Constitutional Court privacy ruling has gone a long way to allow the growing of the plant for personal use, in a private space by consenting adults. The ruling however does not permit the trade or retail of any form of the plant for any reason.

Make sure to read Unicorn Licenses, Fake Firsts and Other Dagga Delusions.

We do NOT support licensing as a way forward. The reasons for this is made very clear in various articles and blogposts that we have published on the subject. We have made a clear explanation about the license situation here and here. There is also a well written article on South Africa’s fake Cannabis licences by The High Co. Licenses will lead to corruption and confusion (as we have seen recently in several countries such as Botswana that tried to implement license systems) and will not enable all South Africans a fair share in a legal future. Please FIRST support legalisation by joining our Green Network.

A significant part of the work that we are doing in the courts and at a grassroots level is to help fully legalise Cannabis FOR ALL in a way that eliminates or greatly reduces the need for licensing. Regulation will however still need to apply when considering the many existing industries in which Cannabis will be used. Please visit our Manifesto page to have your say regarding what you think legalisation should look like. Please DO NOT phone or write to us to ask how you can obtain a licence. It is NOT the way forward towards Fields Of Green For All.