Dagga industry can only blame itself

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

- RICHARD CHEMALY

There's probably a shop down the road from your neighbourhood grocer which only sells "hemp and CBD products", but, you know...

You know as well as anybody that if you went in there and asked for a joint, you'd be offered a vaster variety than Rolls-Royce's colour options.

Ever had one of those brownies? For the uninitiated, they can knock you out for the rest of the day. And yet, there they are, more freely available and unenforced than liquor and prescription medicine.

So it shouldn't be shocking that Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi finally took a break from his NHI bundu-bashing to do something effective to address health in the country.