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Advocates of 'an unpopular cause': Frances Ames, Helen Suzman and Cannabis Decriminalisation in South Africa

Historia, 2023-05, Vol.68 (1), p.142-175 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright University of Pretoria, Department of Historical and Heritage Studies May 2023 ;This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. ;ISSN: 0018-229X ;ISSN: 2309-8392 ;EISSN: 2309-8392 ;DOI: 10.17159/2309-8392/2023/v68n1a6

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  • Title:
    Advocates of 'an unpopular cause': Frances Ames, Helen Suzman and Cannabis Decriminalisation in South Africa
  • Author: Seganoe, Lebohang ; Waetjen, Thembisa
  • Subjects: 20th century ; Advocacy ; Apartheid ; Business and professional women ; Decriminalization ; History ; Legalization ; Legislatures ; Marijuana ; Medical schools ; Nationalist movements ; Professional women ; Social history ; Working women
  • Is Part Of: Historia, 2023-05, Vol.68 (1), p.142-175
  • Description: Two South African professional women were early advocates of cannabis decriminalisation during the second half of the twentieth century. Frances Ames (1920-2002) was a neurologist and psychiatrist based at the Medical School of the University of Cape Town. Helen Suzman (1917-2009) represented the Progressive Party for 36 years as an opposition member of parliament. This article documents their individual - later allied - activities and arguments, initially in relation to National Party (apartheid) drug control measures and then into the democratic era of the African National Congress. A social history approach reveals continuities and changes in the cannabis policy rationales of successive governments and the challenges made to these policies.
  • Publisher: Pretoria: University of Pretoria, Department of Historical and Heritage Studies
  • Language: English;Zulu;Portuguese
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0018-229X
    ISSN: 2309-8392
    EISSN: 2309-8392
    DOI: 10.17159/2309-8392/2023/v68n1a6
  • Source: SciELO
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