A Bill to Legalise Medical Cannabis Reaches the South African Parliament
The Health Committee is evaluating a bill to regulate medicinal marijuana in the African country. The bill was devised by a representative who passed away, but his party has carried on with efforts to pass the regulation.
South Africa could be the next country to regulate medical cannabis. The nation’s Parliament is debating a bill on medical innovation that seeks to legalise marijuana with medical, commercial and industrial aims.
The proposal was formulated by MP Mario Oriani-Ambrosini. Although he passed away, his political group, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), continued to endorse his idea, although it is only calling for the legalisation of medical cannabis.
In fact, Oriani-Ambrosini himself took cannabis to allay the pain caused by the cancer that ended his life. Robin Stransham Ford, co-author of the bill, has stated that both he and his colleague have lived longer than doctors predicted thanks to anti-cancer treatments that are not available in South Africa.
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