Cannabis Industry | Delays in legislative framework hampering industrialisation, growth of sector
Cannabis Industry | Delays in legislative framework hampering industrialisation, growth of sector
Cabinet has received a progress report on the development of the cannabis and hemp sector and the cannabis master plan as part of government’s strategy to industrialise the cannabis sector.
The cannabis industry in South Africa has the potential to create thousands of jobs and could be worth around R28-billion.
However, the industry still faces major hurdles.
It’s almost two years since President Cyril Ramaphosa promised in his State of the Nation Address to create the “enabling conditions for the sector to grow”, but not much progress has been made to create an enabling environment for all players to thrive.
To look at the state of the cannabis industry, we’re joined virtually by the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee for Small Business Development Faiez Jacobs and an attorney and cannabis business consultant, Danmari Duguid.
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To create simple legislation to promote and regulate small scale commercial trade to private users is easy. You are not driven. Your responses are wishy washy
This president is useless
My weed is at most important
The Government doesn’t give a Shiiii about people!!! Give people Jobs!!!
The opportunity is not available forever, other countries will dominate our markets before we can make any dent in unemployment with this lethargy.
I ❤weed too😊 it can make jobs in south africa 🇿🇦 😅 we smoke it 😤 😎 eating it and it can help as people with epilim.
I’ve been in this industy since 2017 and have seen alot but the question I ask is how the stores are allowed to sell this product. #stoppayingthecops.
Leanne lowkey seems like a potsmoker.
Our investors already pulled out and invested into Australia, wasting many years while we wait, and lost jobs due to the implications etc.
The Local industry is also littered with Fake so-called herbalist doctors selling weed illegally in a grey sector, further destroying the legitimate companies.
We own 2 patents and they are worthless due to our government.
Evil people
Preventing informal trade of a medicinal herb simply because there is a lack of a formal industry takes the food off of many tables in poor households.
What about growwers selling Cutting of the Cannabis Trees?
Legal to grow my own 😊
3:21
No hurry. They are still at the product testing stage.
Let us grow our own
Our slow leaders will make us lose out on this opportunity.
Same old story with anc. Can’t run a municipality. Never mind a country.
Create enabling conditions for ANC thieves only.
You can’t industralise the weed….
Government still trying to figure out how to tax us to death on something that grows naturally. They controlled by large corps who do not have peoples interests at heart. They dont want small businesses to prosper. All sell outs.
What about Alphagram they have shops all over Cape Town selling thc
How does Tree of life able to sell buds while the system has prohibited people from selling
Pharmaceutical drugs and alcohol are the problem substances. It makes no sense to decriminalize cannabis but not allow a place of purchase. What about the people who live in apartments without gardens, do they become criminals for purchasing cannabis while those with space to grow are not criminals? The law is flawed and always going to be in the interest of those wanting to stack their pockets from the corruption & ridiculous tax laws to follow.
I LOVE MY WEED. SMOKED IT AT THE SABC ALSO
People are still getting arrested for the plant. ACAB
The ANC have so far given this opportunity to apartheid beneficiaries by locking it behind a paygate insurmountable to the supermajority of South Africans. A paygate of R1.5 Mil liquidity to be precise…😢
grow 100 instead of 8 plaas poesta
18 September 2018 was better than 27 April 1994. SA decriminalising cannabis was the freedom we needed, we still need licenses to sell cannabis 😢. For the fact that the license is 5million is stressing and gatekeeping the plant from the public. Imagine if all those guys in the corners have a proper licence to sell.
creates 1000s of jobs but also creates a million junkies