“The fact that leading industry figures and scientists from the US, Canada, Israel, Europe, South America and Australia will participate in the CannaTech summit in Cape Town is testament to this understanding. As someone born in South Africa, I could not be prouder to bring CannaTech to Cape Town.”
The conference website says the Constitutional Court’s decriminalisation of cannabis for personal use has triggered a boom in cannabis licence applications and investment.
“Africa is in the midst of a green rush. The Kingdom of Lesotho granted the continent’s first licence to grow and export legal medical cannabis in 2017, and currently a number of African countries, including Swaziland, Malawi and Zimbabwe, are examining legalising cannabis cultivation for medical or industrial applications,” it says.
CannaTech, held annually in Tel Aviv, has also been hosted in London, Sydney, Hong Kong and Panama.