Saul is the founder of CannaTech an international event experience that unites cannabis professionals with breakout industry leaders for an unparalleled opportunity to learn, connect and define what’s next for the global cannabis industry."We are trying to create a community around something that is inspirational, and disruptive and is going to change health, so we are passionate about it and when you add passion everything changes""Advice for Africa. Treat your local patients first stop with export only it’s a bad policy to export  cannabis that you haven’t tried in the local market. Move cannabis into the main stream, it’s going to happen wether the regulator is on board or not. My goal is to have cannabis freely available for this e that need it at an affordable price" "Government, industry and academia have to work together if they don’t it will fail" https://www.canna-tech.co 

Afristar Cannabis Report

Saul Kaye @ CannaTech, Cape Town

Rick Trojan is an industry leader and icon, known for the Hemp Road Trip initiated in 2015, he is now on his 10th American tour, and visiting all  6 continents growing hemp. He is also Vice President of the US based Hemp Industries Association. “This plant is so adaptable and so important to us .its time to start using the benefits. HEMP stands for Health, Energy, Manufacturing and Planet““Its shattering to find out that a lot you have been taught is lies. All these systems, building, chemicals, education and health care are driven by systems that are broken and not sustainable. People are tired of being unhealthy and sick and misinformed. Its time to find a better way and cannabis is one way to help drive the conversation” “Advice to the SA government and legislators is to get out of the way. Regulate the end product not the cultivation. Opportunities exist for local economic development, farming locally, processing locally, smaller solutions are possible here in SA, we can change and  be a world leader and drive local crops and development and sustainability and opportunity for everyone”“Remove fear of cannabinoids, the reality is that if you are growing for fibre it shouldn’t matter what the THC or CBD component is as they are not using that part of the crop. The conversation needs to change its all healthy and everyone needs cannabinoids”https://hemproadtrip.com/https://www.thehia.org/

Rick Trojan & the Hemp Road Trip

Seth is the host of the Cannabis Economy podcast and has interviewed over 500 people on his show providing direct insight  into policy, science, and business talking to leaders around the world, anyone doing anything of note in legal cannabis, bringing people together around content talking about sensible regulations for safe patient access."This is the great equaliser it might actually help make society equal but also help make nations equal, the nation with the best policy is going to win in the long run""Its been a revelation to realize that we have been talking about medicine and hundreds of cannaniboids and then we realized we can anything out of hemp and more often than not the product is better than the comparison" "The opportunity is hemp as far as the planet and as far as jobs are concerned. I would liek to see a decorticater on every corner""Cannabis is distinct in that it can heal and shelter people. How is that possible that I can stop my seizures and build my walls with the same plant"Website: https://canneconomy.comLink to Ithemba Ensemble for Seth’s chosen song Azania https://www.facebook.com/Ithemba-ensemble-511282962714292/?ref=py_c

Seth Adler @ CannaTech Cape Town

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

Ras Garreth Prince

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