The Eastern and Southern Africa Commission on Drugs met in Maputo on 5 and 6 August to compare approaches to regulating cannabis. Its report set out the region's steps: Lesotho licensing medical growing in 2017, Zimbabwe in 2018, Zambia after a cabinet decision in 2019, Malawi in 2020, and South Africa's court ruling of 2018 and Act of 2024, which a South African delegate called not really ideal because it allows use without any legal way to buy. Tanzania and Mozambique still criminalise production, trade and use. Delegates warned that the cost of compliance shuts out small traditional growers and risks handing the market to large companies.[1]
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