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Durban Poison coming to a beer near you after ConCourt ruling

A local craft brewery has received funding from a number of well-known Durban-based investors to start making and selling a beer containing cannabis.
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JOHANNESBURG — Many people are beginning to compare the hype around cannabis in 2018 to that of cryptocurrencies in 2017. Numerous companies around the world – including Coca-Cola – are looking to introduce cannabis into their products amid softening regulations around the drug. And South Africa is no different with a local Durban-based brewer looking to the business opportunities that cannabis presents after the Constitutional Court ruled that the personal use of the green stuff is all cool. – Gareth van Zyl

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By Loni Prinsloo

(Bloomberg) – A South African craft brewery has received funding from a number of well-known Durban-based investors to start making and selling a lager containing cannabis, after the private use of the plant was legalised in the country, Business Day reported.

Poison City Brewing investors include RCL Foods Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Miles Dally and Spar Group Ltd. CEO Graham O'Connor, the Johannesburg-based newspaper reported. The Durban-based brewer started selling the lager containing hemp – a variety of the cannabis sativa plant largely devoid of mind-altering ingredients – in liquor chains in September, the newspaper reported, citing PCB co-owner Andre Schubert.

The launch comes shortly after the country's Constitutional Court legalised the private use of cannabis in South Africa, and as global brewing giants increasingly link up with marijuana producers.

Durban Poison is a well known strain of cannabis.

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