South Africa

It has been almost four years since the Constitutional Court ruled that South Africans have the right to consume cannabis in the privacy of their own homes, effectively decriminalising the personal use of cannabis. Since then, there have been important milestones that have enabled the emergence of

The world’s tallest-ever hemp building has been erected in South Africa. The 12-storey building at 84 Harrington Street, Cape Town was built by local companies Hemporium and Afrimat Hemp using hempcrete blocks and building systems. Duncan Parker, founding partner and CEO of Hemporium, said: “I

A new study in South Africa aims to examine the effect of psilocybin on treating depression in HIV-positive women with the goal of increasing treatment compliance. No matter how effective HIV and AIDS treatment have become in the so-called “first world,” the disease is still devastating in places