Cannabis is booming as an ingredient in everything from supplementary oils, inflammation-reducing skin creams, lip balms to health drinks and gummy sweets that promise to reduce anxiety and pain and promote relaxation.
The global legal cannabis market is today worth about $69.78bn, and this will skyrocket to $216.76bn by 2033.
But is this boom benefiting indigenous cannabis farmers in southern Africa? They’d been growing the plant for hundreds of years before colonial authorities criminalised it in the early 1900s. Rural people continued to grow it illicitly after that, relying on its medicinal properties.
For many rural households in southern Africa today, cannabis pays for the family’s…
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