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Is Cannabis in South Africa now legal for medicinal use? No it is not. Cannabis in South Africa is still a Schedule 7 substance and therefore illegal. There is no current application form to obtain a licence to cultivate and you cannot get it via a prescription from your doctor. The...

In what the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) considers a major achievement after championing the legalisation of cannabis through its late MP Mario Oriani-Ambrosini who died of lung cancer in 2014, the same year he introduced a bill in Parliament seeking for the legalisation of cannabis for medicinal...

The legal use of medical cannabis made headway this week as South Africa's department of health plans to have cannabis recognised as a prescription drug, rather than an illegal substance. The Medical Control Council (MCC) has announced that their investigation into the use of medical cannabis...