Just Published Legal Paper 3.2.2025: Kenzi Riboulet-Zemouli – A Constitutional Right to Cannabis? Grassroots Litigation and Dagga Policy Reform in South Africa

Abstract South Africa’s interaction with Cannabis sativa L.—locally known as dagga or ntsangu—spans centuries and reflects the nation’s complex history. Early prohibition, influenced by colonial dynamics, set the stage for the apartheid regime’s stringent criminalisation of dagga users and growers during the ensuing decades, further enshrined in a 1992 law (two years before the fall of the […]