Our well-endorsed legal-medical work, Cannabis: The Facts, Human Rights and the Law, THE REPORT (current ISBN 978-1902848310, the New Updated & Expanded 2025 Edition) formed the "basis for the legal challenge" which eventually led to the South African Constitutional Court's recent historic decision to legalise personal cultivation and possession of cannabis for private use in South Africa.

Leader of the Dagga Party Jeremy Acton’s presentation of Cannabis: The Facts, Human Rights and the Law, THE REPORT as the basis and reference document for his Plea Statement and in his other filings, successfully obtained a referral to the Constitutional Court leading eventually to the Court’s legalisation of personal cultivation and possession of cannabis for private use in South Africa. In a concurrent case, Myrtle Clarke and Julian Stobbs, “the dagga couple,” presented THE REPORT with their founding Affidavit, stating that it forms the “reasoning” and “basis for the legal challenge” to prohibition legislation. (Stobbs and Clarke were appointed Amicus Curiæ -- ‘friends of the court’ -- at the constitutional court hearing.)

As it points out on the back cover itself, “THE REPORT collates empirical evidence and the Findings of Fact of official clinical studies which exonerate cannabis and vindicate all cultivation, trade, possession and use. THE REPORT establishes massive ulterior money-motive and perjury behind Prohibition; and makes the case indicting government. THE REPORT presents irrefutable Legal Grounds for RESTORATION: RELEGALISATION, AMNESTY & RESTITUTION.

However, this 'decriminalisation' is only a 'halfway' stage towards full relegalisation for all the multitude of beneficial uses of the benign herb. More about the case and our Campaign below...

“You have done a splendid job of producing a comprehensive summary of the evidence documenting that the prohibition of the production, sale and use of cannabis is utterly unjustified and produces many harmful effects. Any impartial person reading your REPORT will almost certainly end up favouring the re-legalisation of cannabis.”
NOBEL LAUREATE PROFESSOR MILTON FRIEDMAN, Economics’ Adviser to U.S. government (Reagan Administration); Author, video and TV series writer and presenter; Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace; Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago.

“You represent a worthy part of the fight in many countries for the logical and beneficial use of cannabis. I thank you for that.”
PROFESSOR PATRICK D. WALL, Author; Professor of Physiology, UMDS St. Thomas’s (Teaching) Hospital, London; Fellow of the Royal Society; DM, FRCP.

“You are to be congratulated on a work well done. Very readable. It is an important REPORT and I do hope it will be widely distributed and read.”

PROFESSOR LESTER GRINSPOON, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard University Medical School; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

“The sections dealing with the rights and responsibilities of the jury are eloquent in their defence of fundamental individual rights. The authors correctly perceive the bedrock importance of trial by jury, and the significance of the jury's right to judge the law itself. I welcome the addition of this REPORT to the world's store of important writings on the subject of human liberty.”
DON DOIG, BSc., Author; U.S. National Coordinator, Co-founder, Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA) / American Jury Institute.

“I am totally amazed at THE REPORT’s quality and overall goodness.”
DR. ANNE BIEZANEK, Authoress; ChB, BSc, MB, MFHom.

“I did enjoy reading it. THE REPORT should contribute much.”
THE HON. JONATHON PORRITT, Bt., Adviser to U.K. government on Environment; Author; Founder, Friends of the Earth; TV series writer and presenter.

“I have just finished reading your and Joanna's book on Cannabis. It is a masterpiece on both drug prohibition and jury rights. Thanks to both of you for writing it.”
PROFESSOR JULIAN HEICKLEN, Jury Rights Activist; U.S. National Coordinator, Tyranny Fighters Campaign.

“A fine document.”
U.S. JUDGE’s letter to Authors.

“THE REPORT’s thesis is sound.”
U.K. JUDGE’s letter to Authors.

[Readers should take note that cannabis, marijuana, hemp and ganja are all terms describing the same plant and its products.]

The result of Jeremy Acton's presenting THE REPORT was successful as Acton himself states: “As a result of my plea statement for the first case I was granted permission to motivate for a direct referral to the Constitutional Court.”
*N.B. THE REPORT and passages from it are stated as comprising the legal basis of the challenge to the legitimacy of statutory controls on cannabis sativa (cf. ‘prohibition’) in these Plaintiffs’ court documents, pleas and affidavits. This is verified online by reading the court documents as listed in the PDF downloadable from the link below.

Thus, you can see that our REPORT has led the way for South Africans to achieve decrim for personal use. This is worthy of serious reflection because where THE REPORT has achieved success in one field, it could well have the same result towards full Relegalisation.

However, this campaign for Relegalisation throughout the West, which started in the 1990s, has much greater goals than mere 'decrim', or limited recreational and medical use (crumbs off the Prohibitionists' table, so to speak) - the campaign is still very much ongoing! We are continuing currently to utilise information in THE REPORT to lobby for full Relegalisation and Implementation of the Cannabis Biomass Energy Equation fuel-energy Formulation. Success with this in South Africa could lead to relegalisation and implementation of the CBEE throughout the West.

Note: The CBEE formulation is unprecedented and should not be confused with the assertion by some writers that cannabis can replace the so-called fossil ‘fuels’, which is self-evident. The ecological, socio-political and macro-economic implications of the aforesaid Equation for global amelioration are of paramount magnitude. Also note THE REPORT is endorsed by an Economics Nobel Laureate.

The medical and social issues are allayed by THE REPORT's presentation of the government-funded clinical studies' exonerative Findings of Fact and Conclusions summarised below -- refer to the endorsements by Professor Lester Grinspoon, M.D., and Professor Patrick Wall above. However, the Court has yet to rule on the macro-Economic issues of the CBEE Formulation for renewable, non-polluting Biomass Fuel-Energy. (Unlike the diminutive so-called ‘industrial hemp’ species, THC-rich Cannabis Sativa grows to a substantial size, providing plentiful biomass.)

THE REPORT presents irrefutable Legal Grounds for Relegalisation, Amnesty & Restitution.
THE REPORT exposes the monumental venal ulterior motive behind all controls; ‘decrim’ and ‘prohibition’.
THE REPORT is comprised of Seven Parts. It gives in-depth analysis of and an authoritative insight into the multiple modern and traditional uses of Cannabis as superior resource to myriad products.
THE REPORT establishes the ‘law’ per se is apocryphal, felonious, criminogenic, and gravely damaging to society. This obliges Administrations everywhere to pass a simple legislative Amendment (viz. Part Seven) returning cannabis to its legal status before introduction of legislative controls.

Implementation of The RESTORATION Program delineated in THE REPORT will radically ameliorate the entire world population’s quality of life.

DEMOCRACY DEFINED books militate on behalf of Democracy, personal, political and religious Freedom, Truth, Knowledge, Justice and Liberty, to promote the well-being of people everywhere.

Our well-endorsed legal-medical work, Cannabis: The Facts, Human Rights and the Law, THE REPORT (current ISBN 978-1902848310, Updated & Expanded 2025 Edition) formed the "basis for the legal challenge" which eventually led to the South African Constitutional Court's recent historic decision to legalise personal cultivation and possession of cannabis for private use in South Africa.

Leader of the Dagga Party Jeremy Acton’s presentation of Cannabis: The Facts, Human Rights and the Law, THE REPORT as the basis and reference document for his Plea Statement and in his other filings, successfully obtained a referral to the Constitutional Court leading eventually to the Court’s legalisation of personal cultivation and possession of cannabis for private use in South Africa. In a concurrent case, Myrtle Clarke and Julian Stobbs, “the dagga couple,” presented THE REPORT with their founding Affidavit, stating that it forms the “reasoning” and “basis for the legal challenge” to prohibition legislation. (Stobbs and Clarke were appointed Amicus Curiæ -- ‘friends of the court’ -- at the constitutional court hearing.)

As it points out on the back cover itself, “THE REPORT collates empirical evidence and the Findings of Fact of official clinical studies which exonerate cannabis and vindicate all cultivation, trade, possession and use. THE REPORT establishes massive ulterior money-motive and perjury behind Prohibition; and makes the case indicting government. THE REPORT presents irrefutable Legal Grounds for RESTORATION: RELEGALISATION, AMNESTY & RESTITUTION.

However, this 'decriminalisation' is only a 'halfway' stage towards full relegalisation for all the multitude of beneficial uses of the benign herb. More about the case and our Campaign below...

“You have done a splendid job of producing a comprehensive summary of the evidence documenting that the prohibition of the production, sale and use of cannabis is utterly unjustified and produces many harmful effects. Any impartial person reading your REPORT will almost certainly end up favouring the re-legalisation of cannabis.”
NOBEL LAUREATE PROFESSOR MILTON FRIEDMAN, Economics’ Adviser to U.S. government (Reagan Administration); Author, video and TV series writer and presenter; Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace; Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago.

“You represent a worthy part of the fight in many countries for the logical and beneficial use of cannabis. I thank you for that.”
PROFESSOR PATRICK D. WALL, Author; Professor of Physiology, UMDS St. Thomas’s (Teaching) Hospital, London; Fellow of the Royal Society; DM, FRCP.

“You are to be congratulated on a work well done. Very readable. It is an important REPORT and I do hope it will be widely distributed and read.”

PROFESSOR LESTER GRINSPOON, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard University Medical School; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

“The sections dealing with the rights and responsibilities of the jury are eloquent in their defence of fundamental individual rights. The authors correctly perceive the bedrock importance of trial by jury, and the significance of the jury's right to judge the law itself. I welcome the addition of this REPORT to the world's store of important writings on the subject of human liberty.”
DON DOIG, BSc., Author; U.S. National Coordinator, Co-founder, Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA) / American Jury Institute.

“I am totally amazed at THE REPORT’s quality and overall goodness.”
DR. ANNE BIEZANEK, Authoress; ChB, BSc, MB, MFHom.

“I did enjoy reading it. THE REPORT should contribute much.”
THE HON. JONATHON PORRITT, Bt., Adviser to U.K. government on Environment; Author; Founder, Friends of the Earth; TV series writer and presenter.

“I have just finished reading your and Joanna's book on Cannabis. It is a masterpiece on both drug prohibition and jury rights. Thanks to both of you for writing it.”
PROFESSOR JULIAN HEICKLEN, Jury Rights Activist; U.S. National Coordinator, Tyranny Fighters Campaign.

“A fine document.”
U.S. JUDGE’s letter to Authors.

“THE REPORT’s thesis is sound.”
U.K. JUDGE’s letter to Authors.

[Readers should take note that cannabis, marijuana, hemp and ganja are all terms describing the same plant and its products.]

The result of Jeremy Acton's presenting THE REPORT was successful as Acton himself states: “As a result of my plea statement for the first case I was granted permission to motivate for a direct referral to the Constitutional Court.”
*N.B. THE REPORT and passages from it are stated as comprising the legal basis of the challenge to the legitimacy of statutory controls on cannabis sativa (cf. ‘prohibition’) in these Plaintiffs’ court documents, pleas and affidavits. This is verified online by reading the court documents as listed in the PDF downloadable from the link below.

Thus, you can see that our REPORT has led the way for South Africans to achieve decrim for personal use. This is worthy of serious reflection because where THE REPORT has achieved success in one field, it could well have the same result towards full Relegalisation.

However, this campaign for Relegalisation throughout the West has much greater goals than mere 'decrim', or limited recreational and medical use (crumbs off the Prohibitionists' table, so to speak) - the campaign is still very much ongoing! We are continuing currently to utilise information in THE REPORT to lobby for full Relegalisation and Implementation of the Cannabis Biomass Energy Equation fuel-energy Formulation. Success with this in South Africa could lead to relegalisation and implementation of the CBEE throughout the West.

Note: The CBEE formulation is unprecedented and should not be confused with the assertion by some writers that cannabis can replace the so-called fossil ‘fuels’, which is self-evident. The ecological, socio-political and macro-economic implications of the aforesaid Equation for global amelioration are of paramount magnitude. Also note THE REPORT is endorsed by an Economics Nobel Laureate.

The medical and social issues are allayed by THE REPORT's presentation of the government-funded clinical studies' exonerative Findings of Fact and Conclusions summarised below -- refer to the endorsements by Professor Lester Grinspoon, M.D., and Professor Patrick Wall above. However, the Court has yet to rule on the macro-Economic issues of the CBEE Formulation for renewable, non-polluting Biomass Fuel-Energy. (Unlike the diminutive so-called ‘industrial hemp’ species, THC-rich Cannabis Sativa grows to a substantial size, providing plentiful biomass.)

THE REPORT presents irrefutable Legal Grounds for Relegalisation, Amnesty & Restitution.
In South Africa, court presentation of this legal-medical textbook THE REPORT obtained referral to the Constitutional Court leading to that Court's legalisation of personal cultivation and possession of Cannabis for private uses.
THE REPORT exposes the monumental venal ulterior motive behind all controls; 'decrim' and 'prohibition'.
THE REPORT is comprised of Seven Parts. It gives in-depth analysis of and an authoritative insight into the multiple modern and traditional uses of Cannabis as superior resource to myriad products.
THE REPORT establishes the 'law' per se is apocryphal, felonious, criminogenic, and gravely damaging to society. This obliges Administrations everywhere to pass a simple legislative Amendment (viz. Part Seven) returning cannabis to its legal status before introduction of legislative controls.

Implementation of The RESTORATION Program delineated in THE REPORT will radically ameliorate the entire world population’s quality of life.

DEMOCRACY DEFINED books militate on behalf of Democracy, personal, political and religious Freedom, Truth, Knowledge, Justice and Liberty, to promote the well-being of people everywhere.