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This article aims to extinguish false claims surrounding medical cannabis in South Africa. We walk you through the history of "dagga" laws in SA, current legislation, the availability of marijuana medicines and more. Brace yourself for some fascinating information that will lead you to look at the cannabis plant in a different light.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is removing CBD - the pain-relieving, non-psychoactive cannabis compound from its list of banned substances in 2018.

African governments have not yet followed the trend of legalization seen in Europe and the Americas. But Lesotho’s recent announcement of the continent’s first legal license to grow marijuana is part of a wider shift toward more liberal policies.

The South African High Court has made a landmark ruling, declaring that it is an infringement to ban the use of dagga by adults in private homes.

Medical Control Council’s working group on cannabis – indicated it would publish its proposed guidelines on cannabis production for medicinal.

The South African government has given the go ahead for the production of medical cannabis for medicinal use – with the IFP hailing it a "major victory"

The socioeconomic effect of legalising marijuana in SA would lead to lower government expenditure on law enforcement coupled with increased tax revenue.

The Medicines Control Council declared a desire to reschedule cannabis to schedule 6 drug this week.

Today has seen a giant step forward in the fight for regulated medicinal cannabis use in South Africa.

DA welcomes Department’s commitment to making medicinal cannabis more easily available to chronic pain sufferers.

SA’s Department of Health is forging ahead with plans to recognise cannabis as a prescription drug rather than a banned substance.

There is a growing health awareness within South Africa, awakening to changing to healthier and more holistic lifestyles. More and more South Africans are looking for healthier more natural, medicinal alternatives to pharmaceutical drugs that have let them down. Cannabis oil is recommended as a potent complimentary medicine by doctors, oncologists, neurologists and other specialists.

The friction between cops and rural cannabis growing communities has been a long simmering situation caused by the annual eradication of dagga crops by SAPS helicopters spraying marijuana plantations with the herbicide glyphosate. The Cancer Association of South Africa has added more fuel to the fire by declaring the controversial chemical to be a potentially carcinogenic to humans.

Cape Town – The decriminalisation of dagga in South Africa could contribute to improved public health, the Central Drug Authority (CDA), argues in the latest issue of the SA Medical Journal. And criminalisation of the drug has anyway had little impact on how often people smoked it, the CDA says.

The Central Drug Authority has taken a definitive position on the use of dagga, and has called for it to be decriminalised.

There is an ongoing national debate around cannabis policy. This brief position statement by the Executive Committee of the Central Drug Authority outlines some of the factors that have contributed to this debate.

Cannabis Science Delegation Arrives in South Africa to Launch a Historic Africa Healthcare Initiative Led by President & CEO, Co-Founder, Mr. Raymond C. Dabney.

The push for Medical Cannabis in South Africa is finally moving forward. IFP’s Mr Narend Singh brought the matter of the Medical Innovation Bill to the parliament floor yesterday.

Several experts on narcotic drug usage in Africa yesterday urged SADC-PF parliamentarians to holistically formulate and advocate for laws and policies that would decriminalise the use of narcotics such as dagga, while at the same time focus on treating drug addicts instead of jailing them.