S.A.C.C.R.A. The Councils

THE COUNCILS

The S.A.C.C.R.A. executive council currently consists of the co-founders of S.A.C.C.R.A.. In time, the intention is to evolve the informal groups formed to date into organised local Cannabis Community Associations, as people step up who are willing to do the work required to initiate one together. The structural councils consist of experts who provided information and guidance on the formulation of regulations, standards and protocols. They may or may not be formally inducted S.A.C.C.R.A. members.

The structural councils are Legal, Medical, Industrial, Agricultural/Envionmental, Social Development and Youth Councils. Anyone may apply to contribute to a council and members will elect formal representatives in time.

THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

Functions and Responsibilities:

Through intervention with relevant parliamentary portfolio committees, and other national government departments, set the relevant regulatory agreements and develop specific structures with regard to:

Creating and maintaining an environment that precludes monopolisation
Creating a regulatory agreement structure for the growing, breeding, trading and consumption of Cannabis to be implemented at grass roots level by local, independent, affiliated Cannabis Community Associations.
Ensuring genetic protection through regulated growing, including the regulation of male plants in the general population, and the supply and distribution of female Cannabis cuttings.
Together with representatives from the Agricultural, Medical, Industrial, and Legal Councils, define and develop regulatory agreements for the purchase and sale of Cannabis materials.
Coordinating and documenting the activities of the Legal, Medical, Industrial, Social Development and Agricultural Councils in a democratic and transparent manner, and to co-ordinate the activities of the C.C.A.s ensuring local and national accountability.
Coordinating the dissemination of information regarding the benefits of Cannabis and Cannabis products at all levels.
Coordinating the specific re-education of the S.A.P.S. and other legislative bodies with regards to the Cannabis plant, and to co-ordinate community co-operation with the S.A.P.S. in order to facilitate more effective drug trafficking policies and procedures.
Collating and maintaining the database and record keeping on a national level.
Any other mandate aligned with the S.A.C.C.R.A. purpose which is necessary to ensure the smooth, peaceful and equitable transition to the legal, self-regulated, responsible use of Cannabis through local independent, affiliated Cannabis Community Associations.

THE LEGAL COUNCIL

Functions and Responsibilities:

Under state law,

To oppose the adoption of the S.A.H.P.R.A. Act in Parliament.
To petition the Court to remove Cannabis from the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act 140 of 1992.
To petition the Court to remove Cannabis from the schedules of the Medicines and Related Substances Act 101 of 1965 as amended
To petition for the repeal of current criminal records and deal with current incarcerations related to victimless Cannabis crimes.
To address matters of structured compensation for affected parties.
To create the offense of providing smoked Cannabis to children, except under the supervision of a qualified medical doctor or traditional healer, or specific exceptional circumstances.
To lobby for a ban on the import, use and testing of Genetically Modified Cannabis, and to promote new International treaties in this regard (also relating to other GMO products).
To end the use of glyphosates in Cannabis eradication, setting a precedent for the same in other agriculture.
To determine advertising regulations, labeling and warning protocols at point of sale in collaboration with the Medical and Industrial Councils.
To regulate the use of Cannabis in public.
To establish judicial guidelines for the contravention of Cannabis Regulations for implementation via the justice system, by redirecting the focus of prosecution to the applicable laws already available e.g. child endangerment, reckless endangerment, culpable homicide, malpractice etc.

Under municipal law,

1. To establish structures which effectively regulate the growing, trading and consumption of Cannabis via local independent, affiliated C.C.A.s.

2. Regulate and facilitate the certification process, including an equitable and structured roll out of certification via local independent, affiliated C.C.A.s.

THE MEDICAL COUNCIL

Functions and Responsibilities:

To establish and define safe, reasonable and effective quality standards for Cannabis consumables and cannabinoidal medicine, and to develop protocols and guidelines for specific treatments.
To provide testing facilities via established centres for existing cannabinoidal medicine beneficiators, and to traditional healers in outlying areas.
To provide training facilities for persons wishing to become educated in the application of cannabinoidal medicine via established centres and rural outreach programmes.
To define protocols and establish facilities for further research and development of cannabinoidal medicine, including structured bursaries for the health and medical field.

THE AGRI/ECO COUNCIL - AGRICULTURE & ECOLOGY

Functions and Responsibilities:

To develop and research the use of Cannabis in evolving sustainable farming practices in existing monoculture, permaculture and organic farming with a view to phasing out large scale monoculture farming and introducing more equitable and sustainable practices.
To establish training and education programmes with regard to sustainable farming practices throughout South Africa and to develop models based on current innovations.

THE INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL

Functions and Responsibilities:

To develop protocols and structures for the development of the hemp (Cannabis Sativa) and hemp products industry in South Africa.
To co-ordinate and co-operate with the Agricultural/Environmental Council to establish protocols and define regulatory agreements for the implementation of equitable agricultural Cannabis policies.
To establish and develop “Young Africa” type skills development and education centres countrywide for the promotion of eco-friendly industry and self-employment from a grass roots level (established working model donated by the founder of Young Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique) in collaboration with the Social Development Council.

THE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL

Functions and Responsibilities:

To develop and establish protocols via all established agencies and NGOs to implement structures that will support and assist in the roll out and implementation of the Eradicate Poverty with Cannabis Campaign.
To develop and implement new social health and wellness programs that focus on individual, family, group and community intervention and infrastructure to rehabilitate families and communities who have been subject to undue stress caused by poverty.
To inform and educate at grass roots level via existing community outreach programs, theatre, media etc. all people who wish to know about the Cannabis industry and thus ensure equal access to opportunity for all, and to facilitate and fund community development by their own members’ efforts, thus empowering future generations and breaking the cycle of poverty for good.

THE YOUTH COUNCIL

Functions and Responsibilities:

To develop and implement new ideas relating to social evolution and community living with emphasis on new ways of learning, working, socialising, regulating etc. FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE, BY THE YOUNG PEOPLE
To inform and educate at grass roots level via social media, existing community programs, festivals, social gatherings etc.

THE S.A.C.C.R.A. ETHOS

Authentically inquiring into the benefits of the Cannabis plant, identifying what works and progressing it in a responsible manner which benefits all involved. Regulation is by agreement on what works best and is implemented via C.C.A.s at community level. Executive, Structural and Representative Council Members are elected and serve a predetermined term. Members are committed to conducting themselves in a manner which demonstrates authenticity, accountability and decency, and as such present Cannabis in the best possible light to the public.

S.A.C.C.R.A. TRUSTS AND BUSINESS STRATEGY

(Evolved from and used with permission of New Earth Nation www.newearthnation.org)

S.A.C.C.R.A. is not a commercial enterprise. The following is a description by which S.A.C.C.R.A. members will be empowered to implement an economic model for social development via the S.A.C.C.R.A. Development Trust.

The low resource requirements and fast build times of the model’s innovative design solutions allow C.C.A. Projects such as Total Health Care Wellness Centres, or Thriving Farmers Community Support Centres, to utilize a philanthropic profit sharing model whilst providing steady returns to investors and landowners from the ongoing operation of wellness centres, natural farming centres and cottage industries, as well as retreat rental accommodation and facilities. This provides the realistic and grounded foundation to support the ongoing expansion of the S.A.C.C.R.A. Projects and to support the network of C.C.A.s as required.

T.H.C. Wellness Centres and Related Projects enter into agreement with investors and landowners (where the land is not already registered to the S.A.C.C.R.A Trust). Landowners transfer the land to the development community in return for a profit sharing agreement in the completed projects. Once investor capital has been returned, the land is transferred to the S.A.C.C.R.A. Local C.C.A. Trust where it remains, in perpetuity, for the benefit of the community.

S.A.C.C.R.A. Profit Sharing Model

90% of nett profits generated by C.C.A. Wellness Centres and related projects, Cannabis and other commercial enterprises are distributed to its shareholders as per their specific agreed profit sharing model.
10% of nett profits generated by C.C.A. projects and local, privately owned Cannabis and other businesses belonging to S.A.C.C.R.A members are deposited into a dedicated C.C.A. local trust whose direct beneficiaries are active members of that community, and the broader community via affiliated projects initiated by active members at their discretion.
10% percent of nett income generated by each C.C.A. is deposited into the S.A.C.C.R.A. Development Trust whose beneficiaries are present and future S.A.C.C.R.A. members.
Trust funds are managed by local C.C.A. Trustees appointed by the elected Representative Councils; and by the Trustees appointed by the elected Executive Council, respectively. As the Association grows a national administrative support staff will be required to manage it which will be funded by the S.A.C.C.R.A. Development Trust.

USE OF TRUST FUNDS

Funds held by both the C.C.A. LOCAL TRUST and the S.A.C.C.R.A. DEVELOPMENT TRUST are employed at their respective local and national levels to:

Advance the National S.A.C.C.R.A. Project model by:

Establishing C.C.A. Local Trusts
Developing additional C.C.A. wellness centres and related projects to create a robust national network.
Establishing local S.A.C.C.R.A. co-operatives.
Educating people from local regions in the S.A.C.C.R.A. ethos, method and model facilitated through the network of C.C.A. Project Leaders.
Generating new vocational opportunities.
Hosting events such as coordinated, annual, 5 day festivals as a unified global focus event from affiliated project locations across the globe.
These decisions are made by the Trustees, the representative councils and the members.

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY ECONOMIES

T.H.C. Wellness Centres, retreat centres, restaurants, Thriving Farmers natural farming and garden centres, and entrepreneurial cottage industries are the project’s primary commercial platform owned or managed by S.A.C.C.R.A. members. Most will be privately owned businesses except where S.A.C.C.R.A. is an initial investor as lender in which case a shareholding agreement will be applicable until repaid.

These businesses perform most commercial functions of the C.C.A.s, allowing the community’s other social components such as schools, children's homes, old age homes to function without a specific fundraising focus.

The profits which they generate are employed to benefit and support the rehabilitation and re-establishment of economically independent, socially viable communities via the C.C.A. Local Trust.

The S.A.C.C.R.A. member projects can unite the country’s leading innovators and innovations, and makes this network available to all people through S.A.C.C.R.A. and C.C.A. income generators which form the foundation of the projects’ facilities.

Subject to the terms of an investor's engagement, once investor capital has been returned and their profit sharing agreement comes to an end, investor profit shares are received/bought by the C.C.A. Local Trust.

Where the S.A.C.C.R.A. Development Trust elects to serve as the investor and/or land provider for the C.C.A. projects, the proportion of profits which would otherwise go to the relevant shareholder are received by the S.A.C.C.R.A. Development Trust from the outset.