{"id":231168,"date":"2026-06-07T19:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T19:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=231168"},"modified":"2026-06-07T19:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T19:54:48","slug":"cannabis-industry-gains-serious-momentum-as-africa-eyes-multibillion-rand-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=231168","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis industry gains serious momentum as Africa eyes multibillion-rand boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa\u2019s cannabis industry is moving rapidly from underground trade to serious commercial business, with South Africa emerging as one of the continent\u2019s biggest growth markets. Global cannabis sales have surged dramatically over the past few years, growing from around $21-billion (R345-billion) in 2020 to more than $70-billion today&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sundayworld.co.za\/lifestyle\/cannabis-industry-gains-serious-momentum-as-africa-eyes-multibillion-rand-boom\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cannabis-industry-gains-serious-momentum-as-africa-eyes-multibillion-rand-boom\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa\u2019s cannabis industry is moving rapidly from underground trade to serious commercial business, with South<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231168-cannabis-industry-gains-serious-momentum-as-africa-eyes-multibillion-rand-boom.jpg",750,562,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231168-cannabis-industry-gains-serious-momentum-as-africa-eyes-multibillion-rand-boom-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231168-cannabis-industry-gains-serious-momentum-as-africa-eyes-multibillion-rand-boom-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231168-cannabis-industry-gains-serious-momentum-as-africa-eyes-multibillion-rand-boom.jpg",640,480,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231168-cannabis-industry-gains-serious-momentum-as-africa-eyes-multibillion-rand-boom.jpg",640,480,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231168-cannabis-industry-gains-serious-momentum-as-africa-eyes-multibillion-rand-boom.jpg",750,562,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231168-cannabis-industry-gains-serious-momentum-as-africa-eyes-multibillion-rand-boom.jpg",750,562,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231168-cannabis-industry-gains-serious-momentum-as-africa-eyes-multibillion-rand-boom.jpg",750,562,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231168-cannabis-industry-gains-serious-momentum-as-africa-eyes-multibillion-rand-boom.jpg",750,562,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231168-cannabis-industry-gains-serious-momentum-as-africa-eyes-multibillion-rand-boom-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=26\" rel=\"category\">London Market<\/a>","tag_info":"London Market","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/231169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}