Business and unions are set to participate in an Operation Phakisa meeting from Monday next week

Five years after being told to fix South Africa’s unconstitutional cannabis laws, the state has failed to do so

The lockdown has prevented public consultations and parliamentary committee meetings on the commercial use of marijuana and hemp

We need to reinvent the system so we can address the reasons for abuse, rather than punishing individuals

The major hurdle is not so much an absence of science, or safety, as it is unthinking religious, moral or cultural panic