South Africa: Weed out commercial use of dagga, says IFP
INKATHA Freedom Party (IFP) wants Parliament’s health committee to scrap the Medical Innovation Bill’s proposals to legalise the commercial use of marijuana and focus the bill solely on its medical applications, it has emerged.
It is a private member’s bill, and was the brainchild of late IFP MP Mario Oriani-Ambrosini, who died of cancer last year.
It proposes legalising dagga for medical, commercial and industrial purposes, and says that a medical practitioner working at a pilot health centre should be allowed to administer unproven treatments without fear of litigation.
IFP MP Narend Singh said on Wednesday the bill should focus solely on the medical use of marijuana.
The committee’s next task would be to determine if the current legislative environment adequately supported medical research on the plant, he said.
Mr Singh’s position was broadly in line with that of the Central Drug Authority (CDA), which told the committee that, given...
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