South Africa: The great dagga debate
Increasing numbers of American states and other countries are liberalising their stance on dagga.
In May, the Medical Innovation Bill came before the South African parliamentary portfolio committee on health, in consultation with the Medical Research Council. The Bill is intended to make provision for the use of cannabinoids in medical treatment.
It is a topical issue author Hazel Crampton decided to research further, linking dagga all the way back to the 19th century and beyond. According to her findings, dagga was used freely in South Africa for hundreds of years. It was used in
Afrikaner home remedies, in traditional medicines, sold over the counter and even advertised in newspapers. It has been illegal for less than a hundred years. Using a wide range of sources, from Jan van Riebeeck’s journal to missionary records and from early explorers’ accounts to medical papers, Crampton took everything she had found and compiled a book, Dagga:...
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