Makhura looks to dagga to boost Gauteng economy to R2 trillion | IOL News

Johannesburg - Gauteng Premier David Makhura on Tuesday announced his administration’s ambitious plan to grow the province’s economy through 10 high growth sectors that include the industrialisation of cannabis.

Among these high growth sectors are energy, with a focus on new technologies and a diverse mix, transport and logistics, information and communication technology, media and the digital economy, tourism and hospitality, agri-food and business as well as construction and infrastructure. He said the industrialisation of cannabis would also include agro-processing for medicinal purposes, health and skin care products.In 2018, Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo decriminalised the cultivation for private use of cannabis for adults’ personal consumption and gave Parliament 24 months to correct the constitutional defects in the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act of 1992 and the Medicines and Related Substances Control Act of 1965.

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