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Legal to grow and smoke dagga in their own homes 30 March 2017. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/how-the-western-cape-high-court-dagga-judgment-applies-to-you-20170331 http://citizen.co.za/news/news-national/1473818/users-can-now-grow-and-smoke-dagga-in-their-own-homes-court-rules/ Axxter99 (talk) 09:05, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
But here's the pronunciaton for whoever knows how to do it: daχa
Why the fuck does Wikipedia have to be so fucking difficult to edit. FUCK AWildAppeared (talk) 08:37, 19 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Please the the daggafari article and discuss how we could possible include an excerpt on this article.--MickeyDangerez (talk) 21:17, 5 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
In light of the deletion discussion, User:MickeyDangerez has moved the content of that article here. I'd like us to try to keep the core facts in this article, while striving for an encyclopedic tone, rather than a journalistic tone, and giving due weight to the topic. I can see it as falling under the subheading of "activism". Let's be wary of original research, and use the Be bold, revert, discuss cycle to see if we can find consensus. I'm going to try to draw attention to this work so that we can get a number of eyes on the topic. It's likely that we will reach an impasse at some point, at which time we will hopefully have specific questions that we can resolve by using the request for comment process.
Let's all do our best to assume good faith on the part of other editors. Mickey is new to Wikipedia and frustrated with the processes, and some other editors will see this as an attempt to use Wikipedia as a soapbox for a neologism. There is hopefully some common ground here. It is impossible for all of us to be satisfied with the end result that we will get, but hopefully we'll have something that we can live with. --Slashme (talk) 19:22, 14 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I don't really see the relevance of the last sentence "However after he became an established actor and had changed his name to David, he was arrested, in 1967, for possession of marijuana." unless it is there in response to a claim made by Carradine that he never used cannabis before at the time of his arrest in South Africa or that he claimed back in 1967 that his arrest had to do with racism. None of the cited sources seem to be available online, so maybe Carradine make such a claim at the time of his 1980 arrest. Otherwise, this seems to be a bit WP:UNDUE and WP:SYN to imply that there's a connection to his claim of racism on behalf of the South African government and his previous arrest. As currently worded, I think the last sentence should go unless the connection between the two events is something reliable sources have discussed. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:02, 16 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
There is no reason why the history of dagga & racism in South Africa should be removed.
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=== The history of dagga law and racism === ===== Between 1887 to 1949 ===== The first documented discussion of dagga in South Africa is found in the Natal Indian Immigrants Commission Report (RIIC)[1] published in 1887, in which it is claimed that dagga is responsible for causing insanity amongst Indians. In this report Indians are referred to as "coolies":
The findings of the Indian Immigrant Commission Report framed the future debates on cannabis in South Africa. By 1891 cannabis is prohibited under Act 34 of 1891 in the Cape Colony.[3][4] The South African Native Affairs Commission Report (SANAC)[5] of 1905 includes native South Africans in the dagga debate and by 1908 the "Black-Peril" campaign is used to support the call for a ban on cannabis which succeeded in 1922 with the national prohibition on the cultivation, possession and use of cannabis. The law was briefly changed to exempt mine-workers, allowing them to cultivate, possess or use cannabis, but this exemption was eventually revoked to destabilize the National Union of Mine-workers. Before the national ban of 1922 it was legal for whites to cultivate, possess and use cannabis. In 1921 the Council of the League of Nations had called for an “Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Opium and Dangerous Drugs,” and it was in 1923 that South Africa wrote to this committee. The letter read as follows:[4]
This was accepted at the Second Opium Conference of 1924, and came into international law in 1925.[4][8] ===== Other notable historic events regarding dagga and racism ===== ====== Son of Rhodesian Prime Minster arrested for dagga ====== On 20 December 1971 Alec Smith, the son of the Prime Minster of Rhodesia, Ian Smith, is arrested for the possession of 200 grams of dagga at the Mozambique border, after returning from vacation. Due to his conviction for dagga he was expelled from Rhodes University at the end of his first year in 1971.[9] ====== David Carradine, dagga, racism and the Apartheid State ====== In 1980, while in South Africa filming Safari 3000 (also known as Rally), Carradine was arrested for possession of marijuana.[10] He was convicted and given a suspended sentence.[11] He claimed that he was framed by the apartheid government as he had been seen dancing with Tina Turner.[12] However after he became an established actor and had changed his name to David, he was arrested, in 1967, for possession of marijuana.[13] References
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--Mickey ☠ Dangerez 17:21, 17 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
The following timeline of the evolution and revolution of the South African dagga culture. Should be restored and merged.
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=== The (r)evolution of the dagga culture: From pothead to daggafarian === ==== Introduction ==== As a result of hundreds of years of stigma[1], racism[2] and pseudo-scientific allegations[3] against dagga there aren't many words in the Afrikaans language that associates neutrally or positively with the cannabis culture. Still today the word pothead or "daggakop" is generally used to insult and break down a person's character rather than identify a person with the cannabis culture. Even the term "cannabis smoker" or "daggarooker" is generally accompanied by a negative association in retrospect to a person's use of cannabis. DaggafariorDaggafarianism is a sub-culture of the cannabis culture that originated from the evolution and revolution of the dagga culture in contemporary South Africa as a result of the reformation of cannabis laws around the world in favor of the plant. In Daggafari anyone associated with the cannabis culture is known as a daggafarian, cannafarianorhempfarian.[4] The term Daggafarian is a compound word created from the words, dagga and Rastafarian, and was first used in 2013[5] on a social media page.[6] The term came into existence after a need arose for a colloquial term that identifies positively with the cannabis culture of South Africa regardless of a person's religion, race, language or social background, that still however emphasizes the word dagga without any negative connotations of its notorious history. With the use of this internationally recognizable term, because of the direct use of the word dagga in South African, as well as international news[7] and publications as well as the influence and popularity of cannabis use of the rasta culture, the South African cannabis culture showed a clear evolution in reaction to continual reformation of cannabis laws around the world. === Formation of the Dagga Party === In February of 2009 Jeremy David Acton forms the first constituent of the Dagga Party of South Africa, in Cape Town, to represent the dagga culture as a South African political party. ==== Coronation of the Dagga Couple ==== In August of 2010 the raid and arrest of the South African couple, Julian Stobbs and Myrtle Clarke for the possession of cannabis made headline news where they were then referred to, by the media, as the Dagga Couple. Following the arrest the couple appeared in the Magistrate's court where they applied to be heard in the Constitutional Court. In May of 2011 the couple's affidavit is handed in at the North Gauteng High Court. In August 2011 charges of possession and dealing are struck off the roll at Magistrate’s Court, pending the outcome of the constitutional challenge and a summons is served to the seven departments of Government. By November 2011 the State file their intention to defend the charges. By January 2012 the State replied to the founding affidavit and in July of 2012 Doctors For Life apply to the Pretoria high Court as defendant number 8 for the State in the case.[8] ==== Rise of the cannabis movement ==== On 17 January of 2013 the Dagga Movement of South Africa appears on social media creating awareness regarding the injustice of cannabis laws in South Africa. On 29 April 2013 the Dagga Movement created an online platform whereby participants could send a 21 day notice to various government departments including the President of South Africa in what was called the "Cannabis Awareness Drive: 21 Days Notice to Government".[9] A total of 91 persons participated in the drive.[10] The proclamation of dagga rights nor any other part of the notice was rebutted by government.[11] ==== Unification of the dagga culture ==== On 3 May 2013 the Dagga Union of South Africa (DUSA) is formed by a Facebook group that would see their membership continue to grow past 20,265 members in August of 2017. On 20 April 2013 the dagga culture of South Africa came together, for the first time, to celebrate 4/20 in the Maboneng precinct, Johannesburg. This celebration is locally known as D-Day (Dagga Day).[12] Three days after the D-Day celebration the Dagga Movement publishes guidelines for the use and description of the word Daggafarian on their website. ==== Relinquishing of Dagga Law Bill ==== On 24 April 2014 the first revision of the Relinquish Dagga Law Bill Rev. 1a is written by the fouding member of the Dagga Movement and Dagga Union of South Africa and is presented to the dagga culture as well as members of the Dagga Union of South Africa.[13] By 24 September 2014 the bill is revised for the fourth time, resulting in two separate documents titled Relinquish Dagga Law Bill Rev. 1d[14] and Dagga Regulation Bill Rev. 1b[15] respectively. The bills were presented to Julius Sello Malema in a tweet with the hopes that it would be tabled in parliament, although this endeavor proved mostly unsuccessful it did result in Malema retweeting the Bill to his followers.[16] ==== Dagga Ops ==== On 7 May 2015 the Dagga Magazine published the Dagga Ops Environmental Impact Assessment as received from the South African Police Service after filing a PAIA request to get access to the documents that give the SAPS Air Wing their mandate[17] to aerial spray dagga crops with glyphosate in South Africa and the Transkei.[18] ==== The ''Trial of the Plant'' ==== On 29 July 2017 the Constitutional challenge to legalise dagga started in Pretoria High Court. After a delayed start and nearly 3 weeks of expert testimony the case is postponed to 2018 to allow the plaintiffs time to study the 4000 pages of late evidence introduced by Doctors for Life.[19] References |
--Mickey ☠ Dangerez 17:26, 17 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Slashme created a redirect of Daggafari and suggested that some of the content be merged into Cannabis in South Africa in his AfD of Daggafari
--Mickey ☠ Dangerez 11:00, 18 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Dissecting the edit note:
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Can someone add information on at least three institutions or organizations abusers can seek help. Thire776 (talk) 14:34, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You’re right! Help lines should be listed when dealing with medicine. Tigercultivations (talk) 17:22, 24 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]