Shops that look like dispensaries, private clubs, delivery services and plenty of conflicting advice online. Here is how buying weed in Cape Town actually works, from a collective in De Waterkant that looks after visitors every day.
Is weed legal in Cape Town?
Partly, and the part that matters to a visitor is clear. In 2018 the Constitutional Court ruled that adults may possess, use and grow cannabis in private, and the Cannabis for Private Purposes Act of 2024 put that into law. What neither did is create a retail market: cannabis still cannot be sold over a counter to the public.
That single fact explains everything about how buying works here. Our visitor guide to the law goes through it in more detail.
How buying works: clubs, collectives and delivery
Because open sale is not allowed, cannabis is supplied by private clubs and collectives. Members jointly own the crop grown for them, and what you pay covers growing, preparing and delivering your share. The membership step is not a red flag: it is how the model stays within the law. At Dixie Jane it is free for life, created at checkout with your name, surname and email, and you add your passport number afterwards.
Walk in to our café
See the products and ask questions at 40 Chiappini Street, De Waterkant. Coffee, wine and beer, happy hour 3 to 6pm. It is a café, not a smoking venue.
Visit the storeLounges
A few clubs in town have lounges where members sit and smoke. Good for a social afternoon, though some charge monthly fees that rarely suit a short stay.
Delivery to where you stay
The easiest option for most visitors. Order online and it arrives by Uber within 90 minutes, usually under 45, in plain packaging, to hotels, guesthouses and Airbnbs.
Hotel and Airbnb deliveryWhat to order first
Indoor flower
From 1g, grown by our own collective. Sativas for the day, indicas for the evening.
Indoor flowerWhat visitors order most
Where you can and cannot use it
Relaxed attitudes are not the same as permission, and police do act in tourist areas. The rule is simple: private is fine, public is not.
Read the visitor guide to the lawWhat not to do
- Drive after using cannabis. The rules are the same as for alcohol.
- Take it across a border, onto a flight or onto a cruise ship. Finish it or leave it behind.
- Buy from people on the street. You have no idea what you are getting or how strong it is.
- Give or share it with anyone under 18.
Start low, go slow
Holiday is a good time to try cannabis and a bad time to overdo it. Take 5mg of an edible and wait two hours, or share one pre-roll. Keep the first evening free, and skip the wine.
Yes. South Africa’s cannabis laws apply to every adult in the country, not only citizens. Visitors buy through a private collective like Dixie Jane, and a passport is accepted as ID.
Yes, because cannabis cannot be sold to the public. At Dixie Jane membership is free for life and is created at checkout with your name, surname and email. You add your passport or ID number afterwards.
Yes. We deliver by Uber within 90 minutes, usually under 45, to hotels, guesthouses and Airbnbs across the inner city, in plain packaging. Breaze delivers same day across Greater Cape Town.
Only in private: your hotel room if the hotel allows smoking, your apartment or Airbnb if the house rules allow it, or a private home. Beaches, the Sea Point promenade, restaurants, bars and Table Mountain are public, and the law is enforced there.
No. Do not fly with cannabis or take it across any border. Finish what you have before you travel, or leave it behind.
Where we deliver in Cape Town
Uber on-demand across the inner city and Atlantic Seaboard, and Breaze same day further out.
Dixie Jane De Waterkant
- Address
- 40 Chiappini Street, De Waterkant, Cape Town 8001
- Hours
- Mon to Sat 08:00 to 22:00
Sun 08:00 to 16:00 - Happy hour
- Every day, 15:00 to 18:00
- Call
- 021 013 7801
- +27 71 106 8267