HAPPY DAYS!

Got a question? A query? A desire to know more? A Smiley FAQ, if you will. Then look no further, my FAQs which you’ll find below should answer just about anything and everything you need to know. If I’ve happened to miss something, then no worries, just get in touch with me directly and I’ll get that answered for you!

• Can I buy weed seeds if I’m not 18?
  • No! And you shouldn't be reading this either.
• What am I selling here?
  • Smileys Seeds is a South African seed bank that specialises in the sale of high-quality cannabis seeds, aka dagga seeds, weed seeds, marijuana seeds or beans. I almost forgot; I have some really dope merch on its way too. Got any cool suggestions? I'm all ears.
• Why am I doing this?
  • Because I want to. My mission is to make A-1 quality cannabis seeds of awesome genetics readily available for all South African adults to grow at home. 
• How many seeds come in a Smiley’s pack of seeds?
  • Smiley’s is that candy store where you grab a bag at the door and fill up with as much weed seeds as you like! I charge per bean no matter how many you take.
• How many plants can I grow in my private space?
  • For now, as many as you want. My advice: keep it tidy and out of site.
• Are seeds legal in South Africa?
  • That’s a tough one to answer. I guess with the current state of affairs, since the ruling, it’s all up to interpretation. You are allowed to grow in your home, you need seeds to do that! That’s where I come in. Hiding behind selling bird seed and souvenirs doesn’t fly in South Africa. Anyone telling you they imported seeds legally in sealed breeders packs is also lying. Seeds need to be inspected before leaving a country and on arrival in South Africa, so how would that work?
• Where are Smiley’s seeds from?
  • I have friends in Europe and the US. No name dropping here, nor do the breeders want me shouting out their names from rooftops. I refer to them as a collective - let’s leave it at that. I do not buy or sell what’s commonly referred to as “bulk seed” from unknown sources. I know where my beans are from, how and who made them.
• Why are Smiley Seeds more affordable?
  • I’m not greedy! My seeds are sourced directly from my friends, the breeders. No middlemen! I charge one fixed cost per seed no matter the quantity. I do not wholesale. I do not charge pack size prices. I buy bakkie loads of seeds at better prices and pass the saving onto my loyal fan base. And you’re also not paying for the Gucci brand name, but still getting the same great quality beans.
• Why no germination guarantee?
  • What? I do offer a *germination guarantee. The excuse that it is always the grower’s fault is bs and does not fly with me.
• What’s the best technique to germinate seeds?
  • Keep it simple, follow my germination for dummies *guide and you’ll be good to grow.
• Do you include FREEBIE seeds with my order?
  • Hell no! I’ve already slashed the prices down to rock bottom. My missus will have me and my plants out on the street.
• What makes seeds bad?
  • It all comes down to the breeding process. The quality of the genetics used. The age of the seeds. How the seeds have been stored. Bottom line, know your seed plug! Always do your homework. Do not get caught with your pants down - you don’t want to end up buying bird seed, old seeds, seeds that banana (hermi), or seeds that have been sitting in a shop display cabinet.
• How should I store my seeds?
  • It’s not rocket science. Maintain a constant cool temperature between 4 and 11 degrees with little to no humidity and in the dark. Avoid heat, water, and light. If stored optimally, seed germ rates will only start to drop off after 3 to 5 years. Seeds of 10 plus years have been known to germinate. Put the little guys with silica gel packs in a rubber sealed glass jar or lock Tupperware container in a cool dark cupboard/fridge. If you find yourself with a boat load of seeds, get a lab fridge from my friends at Minus 40.
• What colour and size should a seed be?
  • How the seeds were bred and their genetics will impact both size and colour of the seed. Seeds come in different sizes and shades of brown to black and tiger’s eyes. I dont sell smaller white, grey or green immature seeds. My seeds are meticulously checked twice. If you find an immature seed please contact me immediately!
• My feminized plant is a male WTF?
  • I’m not in the habit of selling bad seed. I only sell feminized seeds so there is no chance that my teammates sent you an incorrect reg seeds. So, it’s down to environmental stress that may have caused a female plant to Hermie, with heat spots under grow lights being the main cause. Also, the freak 1 in 2500 Autos seeds are male, consider yourself lucky if you have one.
• What makes Smiley’s seeds good?
  • Because my seeds are the bomb! They deliver as advertised if grown under optimal conditions. The proof's in the flower.
• Is it safe to assume that the seeds will grow exactly like you say?
  • The details about my cannabis seeds come directly from my breeder friends. They nurtured these plants indoors under optimal conditions. Consider it a helpful guide for choosing a strain, but please be aware that I'm not liable if the strain doesn't meet your expectations. I am confident, though, that you are going to be super stoked with the end results.
• Where do you ship to?
  • Smiley Seeds is a proudly South African cannabis seed bank. If you’re in South Africa, I’ll get you your seeds asap! It took me a great deal of effort to get the seeds into SA, so no, I don’t send orders outside of our borders! If you want my seeds, you will need to arrange for a friend to forward them onto you.
• Do I wholesale?
  
  • No but I'm more than happy to connect you to a local crew that does. MOQ's apply. Please respect their time.
• Why are shops selling Smiley Seeds?
  
  • Due to popular demand, I've allowed my trusted inner circle to spread the love with 3+1 Smiley Seed Packs. The +1 is on me in case of any non germs - with all things living it can happen. More importantly, I only guarantee seeds bought directly from me here.
• Do I sell hemp seeds?
  • Technically speaking yes, as cannabis seeds do not contain THC making them a hemp product. But if you are referring to industrial hemp seeds sold by the kilogram, not a chance you will find that here.

• Auto-flowering
  
  • Auto cannabis strains automatically switch from vegetive growth to flower stage based on age with most strains finishing within 70 days from seed.
• Photoperiod
  
  • Cannabis strains that respond to light cycles with marked changes in their growth. The flowering stage occurs naturally when plants receive less than 12 hours of light a day.
• FAST
  • Fast flowering strains are a cross of a photo fem and an auto fem. FASTS respond to light cycles and have a week or two shorter flowering time compared to the original strain.
• Regular Seeds
  • Reg seeds are as nature intended with a 50% chance of emerging either as male or female plant.
• Feminised Seeds
  • Fem seeds produce female fruit bearing plants only.
• Sinsemilla 
  • Seedless cannabis from a female cannabis plant that was not pollinated. Enjoy greater potency, effect, taste and aromas.
• Hermie
  • A girly boy! When a female cannabis plant develops both boy and girl private parts. It will self-pollinate and pollinate cannabis plants around it. Cause: bad genes or environmental stress, mainly heat and light.
• Sativa, Indica, Hybrid
  • Are terms used to describe a cannabis plant stature, short or tall, thin or wide leaf’s. Somewhere along the way effect, taste and aroma got thrown into the mix. How that exactly works I don’t know.

Where we @ with the South African state of nations cannabis regulations...

• What's potting with the SA law?
  • Cape High Court ruling, 31 March 2017, Gareth Prince, Jeremy Acton, and Jonathan Rubin before the Western Cape High Court, Judge Dennis Davis
    Judge Davis ruled that any law disallowing the use and cultivation of cannabis by an adult in a private dwelling was unconstitutional and therefore invalid, on the grounds that such infringement of the constitutional right to privacy could not be justified. However due to appeals from the state, this decision needed to be confirmed by the Constitutional Court before taking effect. The court also ruled that, in the interim, prosecutions related to the transgression of the laws in question should be stayed. The judge further ordered that “it will be deemed to be a defence that the use, possession, purchase or cultivation of cannabis in a private dwelling is for the personal consumption of the adult accused”. After hearing all appeals in the Constitutional Court during the month of November 2017, the panel announced their decision to reserve judgment in the matter until further notice.
    
    Constitutional Court ruling, 18 September 2018, Minister of Justice, and Constitutional Development v Prince, before the Constitutional Court, Chief Justice Raymond Zondo
    A decision of the Constitutional Court of South Africa found that it is unconstitutional for the state to criminalize the possession, use or cultivation of cannabis by adults for personal consumption in private. The court gave Parliament 24 months to amend the affected legislation, but also granted interim relief which had the effect of immediately making it legal for adults to use cannabis in private, possess cannabis in private for personal use, and cultivate cannabis in a private place for personal consumption. He placed no limits on quantities that adults would be allowed to carry, consume or grow.
• What's the latest from the po-po?
  • A SAPS directive signed and dated 23 August 2023 appears to instruct officers to no longer arrest people for personal cultivation and/or possession of cannabis;
    
    ARRESTS BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE FOR CANNABIS -RELATED MATTERS
    A-H1. Following the 2018 Constitutional Court judgment in the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development and Others v Prince; National Director of Public Prosecutions and Others v Rubin; National Director of Public Prosecutions and Others v Acton and Others [2018] ZACC 30, there appears to be confusion as to the
    
    ARRESTS BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE FOR CANNABIS -RELATED MATTERS
    
    legal position in relation to cannabis. In short, possession, use and cultivation of cannabis by an adult, for personal consumption, in private, is permitted. In contrast, dealing in cannabis is not permitted therefore commercialisation of cannabis is still not legal in South Africa. Following the order of the Constitutional Court, the definition in section 1 of the Drugs and Trafficking Act, No. 140 of 1992 has been expanded as follows:
    

    "deal in", in relation to a drug, includes performing any act in connection with the transhipment, importation, cultivation other than the cultivation of cannabis by an adult in a private place for his or her personal consumption in private, collection, manufacture, supply, prescription, administration, sale, transmission or exportation of the drug.

    2. Cannabis is still listed as an undesirable dependence producing substance in Part Ill of Schedule 2 of the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act. Despite this, licenses or permits are, in certain circumstances, granted by the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) and the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD) permitting cannabis cultivation for medical research purposes or the cultivation of hemp (low THC cannabis) for limited purposes.

    3. There is currently no legislation that prescribes what quantities of cannabis may be possessed or cultivated in order to comply with the Prince judgement. There is also no legislation that allows for a presumption of dealing where cannabis quantities above a certain threshold is found in the possession of a person. As a result, the amount of cannabis found in the possession of a person for private consumption, in private or for cultivation cannot be used by a member to presume that the person is in fact dealing in cannabis.

    4. Since there is no definition or quantification of the concept of "personal consumption", the South African Police Services is at risk if they arrest a person for possession, use or cultivation and such matter is not enrolled, struck off the roll, or otherwise does not result in prosecution. This exposes the SAPS to civil claims for unlawful arrest and detention.
    
    ARREST BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE FOR CANNABIS-RELATED MATTERS
    

    5. Whenever a member has a suspicion of, or reasonable rounds in relation to an offence involving cannabis, the suspect, like any other suspect, must be treated with dignity and in compliance of the prescripts laid down by the law, including the Bill of Rights in Chapter 2 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996. All lawful means of securing the accused's attendance at trial, such as a summons or written notice, need to be considered before resorting to arrest and detention. For purposes of a summons or written notice, the name, residential address, occupation and status for the accused must be obtained to ensure his or her appearance at an identified court on a specific court date. A criminal case docket must be registered and the cannabis or any other exhibits must be seized and booked into the SAPS 13.
    
    5.1. Before arresting alleged cannabis offenders and the seizure of their property proceed, members of the SAPS should liaise with the prosecuting authority, where possible, to determine whether the matter will be enrolled and prosecuted. It is also advisable to obtain a search and seizure warrant beforehand, before such operations are conducted. This will ensure that the process is subject to judicial oversight and the rule of law.
    
    6. No arrests are to be made for personal and private cultivation and/or or possession of cannabis, which activities are not criminal. Furthermore, no arrests of alleged cannabis offenders should be effected merely for the reason to achieve pre-determined targets and without assurance that there is indeed a crime that will be enrolled and prosecuted by the National Prosecuting Authority.
    6.1 A private space is any space that the public does not have access to as a matter of right, for example:
    
    6.1.1 a physical barrier preventing access is not a requirement of a private space.
    
    6.1.2 a person does not need to be the owner of a space for it to be their private space.
    
    6.1.3 cannabis is privately possessed if hidden from view when carried in public. The inside of a motor vehicle is a private space.
    
    6.1.4 cannabis dispensed by a traditional, cultural, or religious healer in small quantities is privately and personally possessed; and

    6.1.5 more than one person may have ownership rights to personal and private cannabis.

    7. This circular must be brought to the attention of all members under your command against their signature and filed as proof that such members familiarised themselves with the content of this circular. Any enquiries in relation to this circular should be directed to
    
    ARRESTS BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE FOR CANNABIS -RELATED MATTERS
    
    Brigadier NF van Graan, at: 082 779 8662 or Brigadier MD Bobie, at: 079 527 3846 of the Division: Legal Services. Alternatively, any member of Legal Services responsible for provincial operational legal assistance may be contacted in this regard.

    8. Failure of a member to comply with these instructions may result in disciplinary steps.

    1-J.1. For your information.

• Its been a while but there’s a reason to SMILE!
  • Private Cannabis Bill *29th February
    
    The bill has made it through the various levels of politicking and debate and has landed on
    Uncle Cyril’s table for signing. So any day now we will hear if and when the Bill will become law.
    So what does the bill say? Here’s my take away:
    
    THE GOOD! YES!
    • The new Cannabis Definition seems to allow trading in seeds, clones and seedlings
    • Growing at home and in private, no plant limits
    • Partake in a private space, no limits
    
    THE BAD! NO!
    • Trading in flower, concentrates, edibles, or any products derived from flower.
    • Driving under the influence of THC
    
    THE UGLY!
    • Private Members Clubs could eIectively become illegal, depending on the Minister’s
    further regulations and the Police interpretation.
    
    We asked OhHighMarc420 to drop the terpenese and give us some legalese and this is
    what we got:
    
    The Bill has undergone several changes, with the most recent being stripped of most of the
    highly debated issues, including plant limits/counting and the traditional and cultural
    exemptions.
    
    1. Cannabis has an updated definition:
    ‘‘cannabis’’ means the flowering or fruiting tops of a cannabis plant and includes
    products made therefrom, but excludes any seed, seedling, the stalk, leaves and
    branches without any fruit or flower, and the roots of a cannabis plant, including
    products made therefrom.
    
    2. “Private Place” has also now been defined:
    ‘‘private place’’ means-
    (a) any place, including a building, house, room, shed, hut, tent, mobile home, caravan,
    boat or land or any portion thereof, to which the public does not have access as of right;
    and
    (b) any part or portion of communal land as defined in section 1 of the Communal Land
    Rights Act, 2004 (Act No. 11 of 2004), which, in terms of the rules or custom of a
    community or the standard rules contemplated in section 19(5) of that Act, is a place
    which is exclusively used to cultivate or use cannabis in a private place, by an adult
    person as a member of such a community;
    
    3. No plant limits have been included and there are currently no limits on the amount of
    cannabis that is considered personal use. However, in Paragraph 6, a provision is made
    for the Minister to create regulations around this. Such regulations will need to be
    approved by parliament.
    
    4. Lastly, this bill amends certain other existing laws when it comes into operation. I have
    one concern;
    
    The amendments to the National Road Traffic Act, 93 of 1996, references to THC have
    been added, and the eIect of these additions is that anyone who is in the driver seat of a
    vehicle who has THC in their blood is now guilty of an oIense which could result in 2
    years of prison.
    
    This is a big problem because THC remains present in my your blood long after
    consumption. This amendment eIectively make it illegal to drive for 2 months after a
    sesh with no consideration for actual impairment or existing science relating to
    cannabis intoxication and impairment.
    
    The bill needs to be signed, and published in the gazette to be made law. Until then we operate
    on the basis set out in the Prince case (Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development and
    Others v Prince (Clarke and Others Intervening); National Director of Public Prosecutions and
    Others v Rubin; National Director of Public Prosecutions and Others v Acton (CCT108/17) [2018]
    ZACC 30; 2018 (10) BCLR 1220 (CC); 2018 (6) SA 393 (CC); 2019 (1) SACR 14 (CC) (18
    September 2018) (saflii.org)) and the Police Directive (Arrests-by-the-South-African-PoliceService-for-Cannabis-Related-Matters23082023.pdf (fieldsofgreenforall.org.za)).
    
    These are the only laws that have been passed. Do not allow yourself to be fooled by social
    media or misleading headlines.
    
    Where we at:
    Drafted
    Tabled
    Debated
    Passed by national assembly
    Passed by council of provinces
    Referred by NA to president for signature
    Signature and gazette
    Date for commencement of new bill

• Cyril has found his pen, but we're still in the dark.
  
  • Fields of Green for all have tried to shed some light:
    https://fieldsofgreenforall.org.za/the-correct-version-of-the-cannabis-for-private-purposes-bill-now-signed/