South Africa's Cannabis for Private Purposes Act signed, but grey areas remain, concerning cannabis community.
South Africa's Cannabis for Private Purposes Act signed, but grey areas remain, concerning cannabis community.community has welcomed the highly anticipated Cannabis for Private Purposes Act but is concerned about the grey areas that are still not being addressed.
Management consultant Etienne van Zyl said this was a step in the right direction. He said the Act removed cannabis from the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act of 1992 which enables pending national policy and regulations to be dovetailed into provisions of the Act. “The Act includes ministerial powers to provide further regulations on quantities for possession and transport… will be subject to further public participation,” he said.Van Zyl said while the Act provided protections for children in the proximity of use while enabling supervised administration of cannabis to children by adults for medicinal purposes as supported by a doctor’s prescription, it did not say much about adult private use.
“Without the support… this legislation might have a broader policy outlook focusing on those two segments and adult use as a third, which might have harmful implications for the livelihoods of those SMMEs,” he said.
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