SA's first dagga growing club heads to the high court nearly two years after police raid | Businessinsider

The Cannabis Master plan, focused on, hopes to tap into a R28 billion sector while providing employment for some 25,000 people.

Liddell launched the members-only cannabis growers club in early 2019, shortly after the Constitutional Court judgement. Members, who paid a membership fee, would send cannabis seeds to THC. These seeds would be barcoded and stored on the member's behalf. THC would then cultivate the seeds and grow the cannabis in the member's allotted, 'rented' private space. The plant, once fully matured in three months, would be harvested, dried, cured, packaged, and labelled for the member's collection or delivery.

But things came to a head in October 2020, when police raided THC, confiscating plants and growing equipment. Liddell was arrested and criminally charged. "Really, what they are saying is [that] you are not allowed to grow cannabis on behalf of someone else." "The aim is to permit the collective exercise of rights, such as a community garden, grow club etc, on the basis that not every person has the socioeconomic status to participate in a law of general application like that created by Prince 3 [the Constitutional Court's 2018 ruling]."

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