South Africa: Stop arresting cannabis users, Human Rights Commission urges police after complaints about arrests from Rastafarian community.

The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has written to national police commissioner Gen Fannie Masemola to express concern over the ongoing arrests of cannabis users and Rastafarians despite a law permitting the private cultivation and use of cannabis by adults. The private use, possession and cultivation of cannabis by adults was decriminalised in 2018, with […]