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Breaking: South Africans Permitted to possess, use and cultivate cannabis by an adult, for personal consumption, in private.

The South African Police Service has confirmed that the private cultivation and use of cannabis will not warrant an arrest, despite a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) ruling in 2018.

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Breaking: Moroccan Cannabis Industry Versus Israel compete for Europe

Israel's Health Ministry announcement in August to liberalize its laws on the use of medical cannabis, will significantly widen the drug use in a health-care setting, as well as boost exports of the product to foreign markets and with that the rivarly with Morocco.

With its longer history in medical cannabis, Israeli firms are likely to make a quicker and more seamless entry into European markets than Morocco. Several Israeli firms involved with the industry have strengthened on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange since the Health Ministry’s announcement in early August.



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Breaking: A Perspective from Morocco's Budding Cannabis Industry.

After generations as outlaws, small farmers across the Rif Mountains are being asked to team up with multinationals to take the North African kingdom’s lucrative crop mainstream.

After criminalizing cannabis farming for six decades, in May 2021 the Moroccan Parliament reversed course, passing a law that lawmakers hoped would open a new era when farmers and the state would collaborate to capitalize on the country’s cannabis potential, worth an estimated $15 billion, for pharmaceutical purposes. The vision — to transform the country’s illicit trade into a sleek, streamlined, medicalized, multinational operation — is the first of its kind in North Africa, where cannabis has for decades been ferried illegally across borders on mules, in small trucks or on Zodiac boats.

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