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Fields of Green for ALL • Collectively Reforming South African Cannabis Laws

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in the WHO African Region” pp. 10-12, Brazaville 2010. handles hemp crops similarly to Cannabis crops grown
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12. NAGOYA PROTOCOL ON ACCESS TO GENETIC RESOURCES Cannabis/producing-selling-hemp/commercial-licence/list-
AND THE FAIR AND EQUITABLE SHARING OF BENEFITS approved-cultivars-Cannabis-sativa.html
ARISING FROM THEIR UTILIZATION TO THE CONVENTION ON 26. In the United States of America “the Agriculture Improvement
BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, Convention on Biological Diversity. Act of 2018, Public Law 115-334 [...] among other things, [...]
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protocol/nagoya-protocol-en.pdf
and marketing of hemp, defined as the plant Cannabis sativa
13. “With Psychoactivity-related Purposes” – see the definition L. and any part of that plant, including the seeds thereof
under the section “Hemp” below. and all derivatives, extracts, cannabinoids, isomers, acids,
salts, and salts of isomers, whether growing or not, with a
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