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Cannabis in South Africa is an indigenous plant with a rich historical, social, and cultural significance for various communities. South Africa’s cannabis policy evolution has been marked by significant shifts, particularly following decriminalisation by the Constitutional Court in 2018, and the passing of the Cannabis for Private Purposes Bill in May 2024.
The Dagga Party was established to allow voters who support the legalisation of dagga to have representation in elections. [ 2 ] The party failed to register with the Independent Electoral Commission in order to contest the 2014 [ 3 ] and the 2019 South African general election because it could not raise the required R200,000 registration fee.
The year 2023 began with several state efforts to legalize adult-use or medical cannabis, despite an apparently stalled federal effort to do so. [1] A cannabis industry executive predicted that at least two states would enact adult-use reform in 2023, with the most likely states to legalize being Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Ohio. [2]
The regional term dagga is commonly used for cannabis and is derived from the Khoikhoi word dacha, which was used by the early European colonial settlers in the Western Cape. [8] After their arrest Stobbs and Clarke became known as "The Dagga Couple" in local media .
The images used in the calendar, as arranged in an online promotional montage The Calendargate controversy among American conservatives developed in December 2023 after the release of a 2024 calendar featuring photographs of female conservative activists and commentators, several of whom wore revealing clothing.
A new strategy was planned for 2017. [125] Cannabis-derived medicines may be licensed since 2014. [ 126 ] [ 127 ] A review of policy on medicinal cannabis was announced in November 2016, [ 128 ] and a private member's bill to legalize it passed second stage in the Dáil in December 2016.
The 117th United States Congress, which began on January 3, 2021, and ended on January 3, 2023, enacted 362 public laws and 3 private laws. [1] [2] Donald Trump, who was the incumbent president for the Congress's first seventeen days, did not enact any laws before his presidential term expired.
An Act to authorise the use for the public service of certain resources for the years ending 31 March 2023 and 2024 (including, for the year ending 31 March 2023, income); to authorise the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of Northern Ireland of certain sums for the service of those years; to authorise the use of those sums for specified ...