OK, so yolasites is pissing me off even more...

In 1911, a law is passed in South Africa, the first of its kind worldwide.
This law was passed to control and oppress the culture and freedom of mine workers.
This law was the first of many that ended up being called Apartheid.

2011, 17 years after the new, free and fair regime took power, this law still stands.
One might think that there would be a reason for the continued legality of this law. But despite numerous studies, local and worldwide, indicating this law is illegal, it persists.

That law makes cannabis illegal in South Africa.

So, politically, there is no reason for the law.

Did you know you can overdose on alcohol…you probably did.
Tobacco…. Yep, you can OD on cigarettes.
Cannabis – You cannot OD on cannabis.
So, purely for that reason, with the legality of tobacco and alcohol, there is no valid reason, medically, why it should be illegal.

Economically..now we’re getting closer to the cause.
Weed is, well, a weed. It can grow anywhere just about. It can grow in your back garden. So if it becomes legal, it will need to be taxed. But how the fuck do you tax a weed. I don’t know, and until someone figures that out, the law will never make it legal.

That’s where decriminalisation comes in.
You may have heard that if you scrape the white kak from the insides of banana skins, bake it according to a recipe, you can get high.
So why aren’t bananas illegal or subject to ‘sin tax’ like smokes and booze.
Because the law doesn’t care about bananas in that way.
And decriminalisation will put cannabis it that boat too.
Or something like that.

So why the sudden history lesson?
Well I heard on the radio that a report has come back from Advocate Myeni about South Africas war on drugs.
It has almost no online prescence or reporting, all I could find was
this
on SAFM’s website, saying :
10:05 Decriminalise Cannabis in South Africa, says Advocate Myeni
The legality of cannabis has been the subject of debate and controversy for quite some time now in South Africa. Rastafarians are normally the ones who regularly push for the decriminalisation of dagga. Today we hear from Advocate Myeni who also thinks it should be decriminalised.

I hope that this report is not ignored like many before it.
But I guess you have to follow the money, and from that perspective, it doesn’t look good.