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It was announced recently that Switzerland’s largest city, Zurich, will next year allow people to buy cannabis products from pharmacies and

In early January 2019, South African rally driver Ashley Haigh-Smith crashed while testing a new race car. He went off the road at around 130km/h and collided with a bridge pillar, stopping instantly. The impact snapped his spine in seven places (T1-T7), dislodged his diaphragm and cracked four of his ribs. Highly fortunate to not be paralysed, the injuries made for a long road to recovery. The doctors recommended spinal fusion, but Haigh-Smith refused. “It would’ve led to ab

In September 2018, the Constitutional Court ruled that it is not a criminal offence for an adult citizen to use, possess or grow cannabis in private for personal consumption in South Africa. A few months after that cannabis products considered to be ‘health supplements’ (with no medical claims), were exempted from the medicines and related substances act. This, as long as they contain a daily dose less than 20mg cannabidiol (CBD), as well as those containing less than 0.001%