While it’s legal in Cape Town to grow cannabis in your garden and light up a smoke at home, it is a definite no-no when it comes to a grow club. People involved in this model lease a patch of land alongside other like-minded people and have it taken care of by those with the know-how.
The High Court sitting in Cape Town put its foot down when the Haze Club and its director, Neil Liddell, wanted it to rule that it was legal to grow cannabis on behalf of others.
Liddell argued that, given the groundbreaking Constitutional Court judgment in 2018, which ruled that an adult may lawfully cultivate and possess cannabis for personal consumption in a private space, the concept of a grow club should also be legal.
The SAPS, which opposed this application, saw the matter differently and argued that the grow club model contravened the Drugs Act. According to the SAPS, the Concourt judgment only allowed for the private cultivation of cannabis by an adult for private consumption; it did not allow for the cultivation of the green leaves by someone else. Therefore, the police said the grow club model was illegal.
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