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

2.3.2 Current Unregulated Market

HOME CULTIVATION
& DAGGA
QUALITY PRIVATE CLUBS
CULTIVATION
SEEDS DIVERSITY

INDOOR GREEN OUTDOOR
HOUSE

TRADE
PERSONAL SMALL HIGH
USE SCALE END

USE

RESPONSIBLE HEALTH
ADULT USE
900 000
TRADITIONAL INDUSTRIAL FARMERS
CULTURAL
RELIGIOUS

20 MILLION
USERS

The success of a country’s Drug Policy is directly proportional to the size of the unregulated market.

CURRENT CANNABIS MARKET

Millions of people are involved in – or benefit from South Africa is among the top 3 Cannabis
– the Cannabis industry. producing and consuming countries in the
world .
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There is no specific demographic attached to
any aspect of the Cannabis market. From rural Seven centuries of cultivation and use of Cannabis
communities steeped in traditional cultivation and in South Africa have embedded the plant in our
use, to wealthy executives having their high grade country’s economy.
delivered to the door, Cannabis use is pervasive in
South Africa and on the sub- continent.

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