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With close to 40 countries growing low-THC industrial hemp, South Africa is falling behind, says Tony Budden.

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Cannabis… it certainly seems to be popping up in all sorts of strange places lately.

The mainstream media seem finally to be giving the plant some positive space, not just focusing on the “dangers” and reporting on the different initiatives around the world to get it liberated, a far cry from the old days of the “groen-gevaar”, the devil’s weed.

The plant has found its way into the hallowed halls of Parliament lately, with the submission of the Medical Innovation Bill by Dr Mario Oriani-Ambrosini that includes medical marijuana as a potential treatment for cancer patients, of which he is one.

In the bill is also reference to the economic and industrial uses of the plant, which is why Hemporium...

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