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

1.4 The Cannabis Plant In South Africa

SA CANNABIS

FOOD, FUEL, FIBRE, HOUSING & MEDICINE FOR ALL GREEN RESTORATION

SUNRISE INDUSTRY
PROJECTIONS
PROBLEM
RAPID ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN • 29% Unemployment • SA Adult Use and Agro Processing Hub Model • Grow your own
20,000 hectares per hub
Medical worth
• Zero Economic
reparations
Growth
R27 billion by 2023
10,000 emerging farmers
• Primary Reconstruction
& Development Agent
• Declining
• Globally $103.9 billion
50,000+ jobs
• SA potential to be a
Revenue R3,5 billion
Agricultural Sector
by 2023
• Climate Change
• Industrial value not
10 Hubs Revenue R35 billion
global leader of an
yet reliably calculated
inclusive sustainable
New secondary processing
• Poor Diet
• Poverty
opportunities
Cannabis industry.
WHAT OUR PEOPLE NEED • Economic Prosperity “Open up and regulate the commercial use of hemp products, providing opportunities for small-
• Green Jobs
scale farmers” – President Ramaphosa SONA, Feb 2020
• Build your own house
“We have trained our sights on supporting green growth on the continent, and on ensuring that
• Healthy Food
the continent takes advantage of the opportunities presented by the green transition.
• Climate friendly
This includes new industries in energy, materials engineering, the circular economy, sustainable
• Green gold of the SA poor
agriculture and clean production.” – President Ramaphosa speech to the African Union, Feb 2020
• Cheap Medicine
of states in the
a population of
in taxes from Adult
Cannabis for medical use.
GLOBAL CANNABIS • 30 countries have legal • Growing number • USA raised $16 billion • Colorado state with
5,7 million people
Use and medical
USA and countries
• Growing number of states
Cannabis creating
are legalizing or
in the USA and countries
has generated
$15 billion in taxes and
are legalizing or embrace
over 300,000 jobs.
embrace Cannabis
created 41,000 jobs
for Adult Use
Cannabis for Adult Use.
• Paper
USES OF THE PLANT FLOWER SEED LEAF STALK HURD • Clothing
• Bio Fuel
• Medical
• Juicing
• Plastic
• Adult Use
• Building Material
• Mulch
• Personal Care
BAST • Bedding
• Food
FIBRE • Paper
CLIMATE
FARMING/
FRIENDLY
PRODUCTION
CULTIVATION
PROCESSING
EMPLOYMENT
CANNABIS SUNRISE INDUSTRY • Potential to produce Food, 20,000-hectare Agricultural • Per farmer per hectare bio- • 3 decortication • Sequesters up to
10,000 tons of carbon
Fuel, Fibre & Medicine
region & climate dependent
technologies
co-operative hub model
per hectare, where one
• 4 processing lines
• Estimated conservative
stalk biomass R50,000.
Supports 10,000 small farmers
cooperative hub could
Farming two hectares each
• 50,000 tons of fibre
• Fibre R18,000, Seed R155,000
production values per
sequester up to 200
Employing 2 agricultural laborers
• Cannabinoids R1000,000
hectare of hemp with
• 120,000 tons of hurd
million tons of carbon
• employing 150 plant and
• Average income per hectare
per hectare
average yields under good
Creates 50,000 jobs
is about R175,000
growing conditions can
Generates income of R3,5 billion
generate the following for
per hub farming.
these specific end uses
a small farmer on 2 hectares
Ten hubs farming 200,000 hectars • Revenue of R350,000 for support workers
generates R35 billion revenue
SOCIO ECONOMIC POTENTIAL Brand new Sunrise Affordable Immune Boosting Petroleum Grow your own Revive the textile Massive job
Industry to kick start
food grain rich
Health care
manufacturing
economic growth
in Omega fatty
make plastic and
friendly house
applications
biofuel
acids and protein replacement to environmentally industry creation in multiple
INDUSTRIAL CANNABIS MEDICAL CANNABIS RESPONSIBLE ADULT USE
• Differentiated by use
Expand the existing Constitutional Court ruling:
ENABLING LEGISLATION • Utilise existing genetics • Pharmaceutical Cannabis is utilised • to include all people without access to private
• Treat ALL Cannabis as an
agricultural commodity
- cash crop
for specific conditions obtained via
land to have access to Cannabis
a doctor’s prescription and
• for new legislation to include the ability to
cultivate, extract, process, manufacture and
& small farmers as the
manufactured under Good
cornerstone of production
sell Cannabis-based products for Adult Use
Manufacturing Practice conditions
• Regulate THC /
accessed though traditional and
be inclusive.
psychoactive levels at
complementary health channels.
processing point • Treatements for non-specific conditions • to regulate like alcohol and tobacco so as to
• New pathway for rural development and land policy.
• Developmental state plays a central role in develop-
PROPOSED STRUCTURE FOR CANNABIS SA • Managed by Cannabis Development Agency in the • Empower farmers with seed, knowledge and resources to participate
ing the multi billion Rand cannabis value chain.
in the Cannabis economy.
Presidency.
• Establishment of co-operative hubs for grading, agro-processing,
value add, job and community wealth creation.
CANNABIS HAS THE POTENTIAL TO ACT AS SOUTH AFRICA’S PRIMARY
RECONSTRUCTION AND RECOVERY AGENT
The Cannabis Plant Infographic (2020), Afristar Cannabis Lobby www.afristar.org.za.
14 CANNABIS IN SOUTH AFRICA • THE PEOPLE’S PLANT • A Full-Spectrum Manifesto For Policy Reform