The National Department of Health has officially withdrawn a mid-March change to regulations banning hemp and cannabis food ...

Hemp oil comes from seeds that grow on Cannabis sativa, the same plant species that yield marijuana. Hemp oil has a healthy balance of fatty acids that may help boost skin and heart health.

In the six-year lacuna between that Constitutional Court ruling legalising private use of dagga and the eventual Act that came to regulate it, the cannabis industry was in a free-for-all. There’s ...

Business owners say the ban contradicts South Africa’s push to develop the cannabis economy and could drive the industry underground.