t. took maurine indicated that commercial licenses to grow and trade marijuana will be granted this year experts in businesses are ecstatic when dealers see global and agricultural economist who follows the global markets closely believes that cannabis has a huge potential in south africa. the benefits for some africa obviously if you look in terms of video state of california for example there's been over the industry's value over five billion u.s. dollars now in south africa given favorable weather conditions in the eastern part of the country as well as some underutilized which their production could actually happen and that's where they hope usually the lies about to see if we can bring those areas into full production and begin to produce some of these crop how much they do you can we actually extract as a country. but not everybody shares the excitement here on the outskirts of johannesburg fireman has a small plot where he grows marijuana. as for thousands of smallholder farmers across south africa the plant helps him to sustain his family he believes that legalisation will only b