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It still seems like a pipe dream – something that could have got lost in years of bureaucratic red tape, tender fraud and religious superstition – but last week thousands of South Africans exhaled an emotional breath of relief when government announced that it had begun the process of regulating medical cannabis for prescribed health conditions.
As a person who has spent years trying to balance my, at times, intense epilepsy medication with the challenges of work, life and everything in between, the promise of an alternative to the heavy chemical burden is like an early Christmas gift. Now I may have another option – a way out of the lamotrigine daze that has marked the days of my life.
But am I ready to commit?
