Features of the use of cannabinoids in South Africa
In September 2018, the Constitutional Court of South Africa decided on the legality of the use of hemp for personal purposes by adult citizens. At the end of May 2019, the government regulated the possibility of using cannabinoids by citizens of the country.
The Italian chain of eateries in Cape Town (South Africa) offers its visitors a novelty of the season - delicious and healthy hemp pizza for the body. Such innovations in the food market in South Africa became possible after the country's government regulated the possibility of using cannabinoid-rich oil in various culinary dishes at the end of May 2019. According to the requirements of the adopted regulatory legal acts, the daily dose of cannabinoids should not exceed 20 mg per person.
According to the founder of the pizza restaurant chain in Cape Town, Kingi Baranovskaya, “Regulations regulated by the Government of the Republic of South Africa provide a legal opportunity to sell delicious culinary dishes, which have a significant therapeutic effect. Employees of the pizzeria chain strive for culinary innovations, so immediately after the adoption of documents regulating the government, recipes for a number of dishes with hemp ingredients included were developed. ”
Commentary of the Ukrainian Technical Hemp Association
It is believed that hemp plant was introduced to Africa by early Arab or Indian traders. Before the ban on the cultivation, processing and sale of cannabisa in the first quarter of the 20th century, the plant was actively used for industrial and medical purposes. In particular, there are centuries-old recipes for using hemp to brew tea or using a plant as one of the ingredients in various recipes.
In September 2018, the Constitutional Court of South Africa decided on the legality of the use of hemp for personal purposes by adult citizens. At the end of May 2019, the government regulated the possibility of using cannabinoids by citizens of the country. Those. the government’s new measures against hemp primarily affected the culinary sphere - citizens were allowed to consume up to 20 mg of psychoactive cannabis oil per person per day.