The Cannabis Chronicles: Dramatis personae, part I
In March 2016, South Africa will bear witness to a historical court case that seeks to have one of the oldest and most draconian anti-cannabis laws in the world overturned. In the first of a series of articles leading up to the case, KEVIN BLOOM looks at some of the lesser-known characters in the drama, from the Khoi to Connie Mulder.
They have a sort of hemp growing in this country (Scythia), very like flax, except in thickness and height; in this respect the hemp is far superior: it grows both spontaneously and from cultivation …
—Herodotus, 484–425 BC
There are a number of paths - some unsettling, some surprising, all in the end illuminating - that one can travel to get from the above observation by antiquity’s most famous historian to the piece of legislation that outlaws the sale and use of cannabis in modern-day South Africa.
One can,...
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