The court recognises an adult's right to privacy, including the right to cultivate, possess and use cannabis in private.
Sections 4(b) and 5(b) of the Drugs Act read with Part III of Schedule 2 to the Drugs Act and sections 22A(9)(a)(i) and 22A(10) of the Medicines Act read with Schedule 7 of the Medicines Act was declared inconsistent with the right to privacy guaranteed by section 14 of the Constitution.
Parliament was given 24 months to correct the constitutional defects in the two Acts.
Following the Presidential Cannabis & Hemp Phakisa Action Lab, National Police Commissioner, Lieutenant General SF Masemola, issued a directive to all members of the South African Police Service reiterating the rights and responsibilities that all members should be aware of in terms of cannabis arrests.
In a landmark ruling, the Labour Appeal Court ruled in favour of Bernadette Enever, the employee dismissed by Barloworld for testing positive for THC.
President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the Cannabis for Private Purposes Act into law. Adults have the right to cultivate, possess and use cannabis in private. Dealing is still prohibited. The minister must publish regulations regarding the amount of cannabis that can be cultivated, possessed and transported at any given time.