Increasing tolerance of cannabis use across the world, particularly legalisation of sales for medical use in several countries, is causing a boom in investment in the industry. But this may be at the expense of long-time small players such as remote Eastern Cape villages that have beenThe people selling dagga along the N2 told GroundUp that they understood that Mabuyane has promised to legalise the selling of dagga and allow people to plant it to create jobs.
GroundUp met five members of the Rastafarian community on the N2. They kept dagga in lunch boxes, some of it parceled in small packets, and possibly also the backpacks they were carrying. They traded in the open . “Not everyone is against us. There are vendors who support us and when the law enforcement officials come to arrest us they stop them. We are now selling freely,” he said.