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Nicholas Heinamann from the Afristar Cannabis Report talks to Ras Garreth Prince one of the parties that won the landmark constitutional court ruling that the personal use of cannabis is not a criminal offense.Garreth is a campaigner and champion for cannabis at the forefront of the struggle to free cannabis to benefit all South Africans for two decades. We traverse his history with the plant and his campaigns to see cannabis legalised in South Africa exploring how we can get the plant to work for the empowerment of our people on a material and spiritual level. "I am not apologetic for using cannabis. As an indigenous person of South Africa I would rather practice the culture of my ancestors as opposed to adopting that of those who came to colonize" "There was never any scientific or rational basis for having any laws against cannabis just as there was never any scientific or rational basis for slavery or racial segregation, those laws existed because the protagonist could do it""The human rights violation has been for the past 300 hundred years because there has been a tendency to consider the practices and traditions of the former slaves as inferior to those of the slave master. The tendency to accept that is one of the diseases of our time"Ras Garreth Prince Chairperson of the Cannabis Development Council of South Africagarreth@cidcwc.co.za