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Automate Compliance TodayThe Opium and Habit-forming Drugs Act, 1922 (Act 37 of 1922) defines cannabis ('dagga', 'intsangu', 'Indian hemp') as the whole or any portion of the plant, which captures viable seeds, and s.2(1)(c) expressly criminalizes anyone who administers, gives, sells, barters, exchanges or otherwise supplies or receives the drug or plant — so gifting is banned as explicitly as sale. Section 2(1)(b) also prohibits importing or cultivating any plant from which the drug can be derived, and Pharmacy Act amendments provide up to five years for possession. A draft cannabis/hemp bill circulated since 2020 had not been enacted as of the latest verifiable reports, so there is no lawful hemp seed regime.