Medical, Dental and Pharmacy Act, 1928

The Medical, Dental and Pharmacy Act, 1928 (Act No. 13 of 1928) was a South African law that prohibited the production, sale, and use of any "habit forming drugs."[1] One impact of this was to restrict the use of cannabis in South Africa.[2][3]

The 1928 act stated in Article 69:

No person shall smoke, or use, or shall import, manufacture, sell or supply, or possess for purpose of sale or supply to any person, any pipe, receptacle, or appliance for smoking opium, Indian hemp, or dagga or intsangu...[1]

Per Vera D. Rubin, following this act only one license was issued for cultivating cannabis in South Africa, and one license for exporting cannabis, and neither was later renewed.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Vera Rubin (1 January 1975). Cannabis and Culture. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 107–. ISBN 978-3-11-081206-0.
  2. ^ Annals of the South African Museum. South African Museum. 1988. p. 742.
  3. ^ Hendrika Fourie; Vaughan W. Spaull; Robin K. Jones; Mieke S. Daneel; Dirk De Waele (28 February 2017). Nematology in South Africa: A View from the 21st Century. Springer. pp. 300–. ISBN 978-3-319-44210-5.