Johannesburg

Weed now legal: South Africa’s top court has ruled that criminalizing the private, home use of marijuana by adults is unconstitutional, and ordered Parliament to pass laws legalizing consumption of the drug within two years. The Constitutional Court also ruled that growing weed, known in South Africa as dagga or ganja, should be legal for private consumption. As the ruling was announced, the public gallery erupted in cheers of “Ganja!” and members of the Dagga Party activist group celebrated. Unless Parliament goes further than the court directed, though, it will still remain illegal to smoke marijuana in public, to sell it, or to grow it for distribution.