How things have changed. A few years ago anyone who expressed an interest in cannabis would have been dismissed as a lazy layabout, a lawbreaker, a pothead. Now cannabis is being legalised worldwide, and many people who use it do so for its medicinal benefits.

SA has astonishing potential for cannabis cultivation, and far from making a hash of it investors in cannabis projects can succeed by deriving tax benefits under the government’s 12J venture capital incentive...

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