News24 | Mpondoland dagga growers left out to dry

Six years after the Constitutional Court judgment, small-scale dagga growers are sliding deeper into poverty while businesses profit in South Africa’s “cowboy” cannabis industry.
- Farmers have grown cannabis in the valleys of Eastern Mpondoland in villages like Dikidikini for over 100 years.
- But this once valuable illicit cash-crop now yields barely enough for …