The Medical cannabis is legal in South Africa, and recreational use was definitively legalized in 2024 when the South African president signed the law into effect after the ban had been lifted unconstitutional in 2017.
South Africans are therefore free to consume and grow in the sphere deprived of dagga—the South African name for cannabis—with no sales system currently in place.
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