OUT OF AFRICA

IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES LIKE LESOTHO, THE acceptance of cannabis is a potential game-changer.

MG Health is the first cannabis company both in the country and on the continent of Africa to embrace medical cannabis. It is a company driven and partially financed by Andre Bothma, a man whose family has owned businesses in Lesotho since they arrived from Holland six generations ago. He’s also acquainted with the King of Lesotho (which sounds grand but is a rather common occurrence given the small business community) and his main enterprise, LSP Construction, has been involved with large infrastructure projects such as building the majority of the power lines in the country, and constructing dam projects.

The cannabis company could not have existed without Bothma, much less have gotten to this point. However, the real achievement for MG Health is becoming the first EU GMP-compliant cannabis cultivation company in Africa, and further one with a German offtake agreement. In the process, it has also become an important discussion in the German cannabis market as well as the broader European and global one.

For starters, MG Health produces only the second unirradiated strain currently allowed to be prescribed (as well as reimbursed by insurers) in Germany. Both Canadian and Dutch