Dale McKinley: The Fight to Get Marijuana Legalised in South Africa Centers on Equality
Researcher, writer and activist Dale McKinley has written an article
for The South African Civil Society Information Service (SACSIS) on
the fight to decriminalise marijuana in South Africa, which he says is
an issue centered on equality.
The case “which is being pursued by Julian Stobbs and Myrtle
Clarke (a.k.a., the ‘Dagga Couple’) through FGA, is developing
serious and convincing legal arguments for full decriminalisation
that are focused on the equality clause [Section9(1)] of the
Constitution”, will be heard next year March in the North Gauteng
High Court.
It is 2016, the 20th anniversary of South Africa’s Constitution.
Alongside all sorts of official festivities, a sizeable portion of the
population is celebrating the recent decision by the
Constitutional Court to declare the Drugs and Drug Trafficking
Act (No. 142 of 1992), a piece of legislation embedded in over a
century of colonial, racist politics and wrapped in layers of
ideologically and morally manipulated misinformation and
ignorance, unconstitutional.
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