The historical global prohibition of cannabis resulted from earlier colonisers inability to monopolise the cannabis industry in the same way they could alcohol and tobacco. And if they couldn’t make money, nobody would. In Southern Africa, it was founded on the same racist foundations which inspired the most brutal of apartheid laws. These laws served as a device for white domination - to disadvantage and persecute African communities. Modern regulations, it seems are aimed at reinforcing those colonial patterns of capital accumulation. Unless‌