Quite a nice article about hemp in South africa:
Cape Town - A hemp-growing project which offers hope to small farmers in the poverty stricken Eastern Cape could be derailed because hemp is still an illegal substance.
Department of health rules which lump hemp together with dagga could scupper plans for the effective mass production and marketing of the fibrous hemp plant.
"The status of the hemp plant is still [in South Africa] exactly the same as dagga, but the narcotic ingredient of the hemp plant is much less than the dagga plant," said Andreas Plüddemann, a scientist at the Medical Research Council.
Plüddemann said it was time for a review of legislation, especially as special permits were being granted in the Eastern Cape.
"There is no real reason not to revisit the legislation other than it might be technically difficult to administer," he said.
Amendments to the 1965 Medicine and Related Substances Act, which would insert a section dealing with industrial hemp regulations, also have to be approved by the Medicines Control Council (MCC).
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