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Decriminalisation of cannabis for personal use in South Africa

  Decriminalisation of cannabis for personal use in South Africa     Emma Charlene Lubaale I ; Simangele Daisy Mavundla II I LLB (Makerere) LLM LLD (Pretoria); Senior Lecturer, Department of Jurisprudence, School of Law, University of Venda, South Africa. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8006-2946 . elubaale@yahoo.co.uk II LLB (Eswatini) LLM (Pretoria); Doctoral Candidate, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1953-315X . simangelekb@gmail.com     SUMMARY In 2002 the South African Constitutional Court was faced with a case challenging the constitutionality of the legislation criminalising cannabis use. The appellant argued that the criminalisation infringed the right to religion. The Court, however, ruled that the legislation did not constitute a constitutional infringement. It is worth noting that the African Commission and the Human Rights Committee previously have dealt with this issue, in parti