Tag: jamaica
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Cannabis banking prospects improve; scepticism and stigma remain
Wednesday, 10 April 2019The nascent medical cannabis business in Jamaica is challenged by limited access to banking facilities. Many of the major banks have asked clients engaged in legal medical cannabis businesses to clos ...
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Fair(er) Trade Options for the Cannabis Market
Thursday, 21 March 2019Policy changes over the past five years or so have dramatically reshaped the global cannabis market. Not only has there been an unprecedented boom in medical markets, but following policy shifts in s ...
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CLA tasked with fast tracking cannabis licensing process
Saturday, 16 March 2019Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Floyd Green has directed the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) to fast track the cannabis licensing approval proce ...
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Canadian company partners with Westmoreland farmers to grow ganja
Friday, 08 March 2019Wiisag Corporation, a Canadian indigenous integrated cannabis company, has signed an agreement to partner with the Westmoreland Hemp and Ganga Farmers Association (WHGFA) to grow two crops of medical ...
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Sweet smell of success? Big business bets on a marijuana boom
Saturday, 02 March 2019To listen to some of the predictions about the future of the cannabis industry, you would think financial analysts had been partaking heavily of the product. The European cannabis market will be wort ...
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What is required for Jamaica to export its hi-grade ganja
Monday, 11 February 2019Jamaica’s decriminalisation of ganja in 2015 brought with it many expectations, one being the ability to export its hi-grade herb. With a relatively small marketplace (a 2016-2017 Jamaica Health and ...
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Westmoreland ganja farmers welcome pilot but...
Monday, 21 January 2019One of the nation's leading ganja advocates, Ras Iyah V, has welcomed Prime Minister Andrew Holness' announcement that the pilot project for the Alternative Development Programme (ADP), which will pr ...
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Small farmers to begin benefitting from ganja industry
Tuesday, 08 January 2019Prime Minister Andrew Holness says that the Alternative Development Programme (ADP), which will provide an avenue for small ganja farmers to benefit from the ganja industry, will start by March 2019. ...
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Swiss eye local ganja
Monday, 17 December 2018The possibilities for the explosion of Jamaica's medical marijuana industry have attracted the interest of another major multinational corporation that wants to set up shop in Jamaica. And it says it ...
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Please allow small farmers to benefit from ganja industry, says senator
Tuesday, 30 October 2018Senator Kerensia Morrison is calling on the Government to ensure that small farmers and the little man are not left out of the emerging ganja/cannabis industry. “Perhaps the most critical point that ...
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Canada's legalization of marijuana could hurt farmers in poorer countries
Wednesday, 17 October 2018For decades poor farmers in countries like Jamaica and Morocco have risked the wrath of governments to grow cannabis as a cash crop. But as Canada becomes the first country in the G7 leading industri ...
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Cannabis cultivation and consumption pattern in Jamaica 2017-2018
Wednesday, 26 September 2018Fifty-three per cent of cannabis enthusiasts want Jamaica to fully legalise cannabis while 27 per cent want Jamaica to legalise but with strict controls. Only 18 per cent are content with the current ...
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Agriculture minister seeks to link small ganja farmers with large processors
Monday, 10 September 2018Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Audley Shaw, says he is looking to link small ganja farmers with large processors who have the ability to convert ganja into a range of medi ...
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Ganja: Discovering the future
Wednesday, 22 August 2018Despite cannabis being an integral part of the Jamaican identity, just five years ago local laws did not reflect the realities of its use in the country. However, this changed after the decriminalisa ...
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Cannabis store and cafe opens in Kingston
Wednesday, 18 July 2018Jamaica has opened its first seed-to-sale cannabis retail store located in Market place on Constant Spring Road. The ribbon-cutting ceremony signified the beginning of a new era for the use of medica ...
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Partnership critical for ganja industry success - SRC head
Friday, 06 July 2018Executive Director of the Scientific Research Council (SRC) Dr Cliff Riley has underscored the importance of working partnerships that acknowledge and incorporate the expertise of small players as cr ...
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Rare Jamaican cannabis strains are seeding a medical marijuana takeover in Canada
Tuesday, 12 June 2018With the support of the Jamaican government and the farmer’s collective they partner with on the island nation, the Jamaican Medical Cannabis Collective (JMCC) has signed contracts to provide Jamaica ...
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Jamaica poised to become major location for medical cannabis investment — Shaw
Sunday, 27 May 2018Audley Shaw's trip to Canada has paved the way for Jamaica to play a leading role in the rapidly growing medical cannabis industry, according to the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fi ...
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Medicinal cannabis policies and practices around the world
Tuesday, 24 April 2018Although cannabis remains a prohibited substance worldwide, in recent decades a series of political, legislative and judicial processes in various parts of the world have given rise to various forms ...
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Jamaica missing out on growing ganja industry — Golding
Thursday, 01 March 2018Opposition Spokesperson on Finance Mark Golding today told the Standing Finance Committee of Parliament that the cannabis sector needs full governmental support if Jamaica is to take advantage of the ...
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The facts about ganja in Jamaica
Sunday, 21 January 2018When the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2015 came into effect on April 15, 2015, new provisions were put in place regarding the possession and smoking of ganja, use of ganja by persons of the Rastaf ...
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Don't 'bank' on ganja! - Lawmaker says J'cans might be clinging to false hopes
Thursday, 09 November 2017The viability of Jamaica's legal ganja and hemp industry has been called into question, with lawmaker Marisa Dalrymple Philibert suggesting that Jamaicans might be clinging to false hope as there are ...
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Gov't urged to rethink medical ganja policy
Monday, 02 October 2017Two of the Jamaica's leading thinkers have called on the Government to rethink its policy approach towards the development of the medical ganja industry. Former governor general Professor Kenneth Hal ...
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Few Jamaicans in local ganja industry — Dr Lowe
Friday, 08 September 2017There is a negative buzz surrounding Jamaica's budding legal ganja industry. According to Dr Henry Lowe, owner of Medicanja, “It feels like our objective has been to prevent Jamaicans from getting in ...
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Ban on cannabis infused edibles retrograde step — ganja association
Friday, 02 June 2017The Ganja Growers and Producers Association of Jamaica said the recent ban on the sampling and sale of all cannabis infused edibles at entertainment events is a retrograde step and not one forthcomin ...
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Tufton appeals to WHO for more leadership on ganja
Wednesday, 24 May 2017Minister of Health, Christopher Tufton has called on the World Health Organisation (WHO) to remove cannabis from its current classification as a Schedule 1 Drug (illegal drug) deemed to have no medic ...
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Ganja lobby wrong
Monday, 15 May 2017The Ministry of Health (MoH) of Jamaica has indicated that it has begun taking steps to change the schedule class of marijuana to effect amendments to international treaties concerning the drug.Chief ...
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Bob Marley, ganja and the green stuff – is selling Brand Jamaica just a pipe dream?
Wednesday, 03 May 2017When Bob Marley and the Wailers first performed Get Up, Stand Up to a restive 1970s Jamaica, never could they have guessed that the government would be cashing in on their lyrics, their Rastafarianis ...
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Too much ‘dilly dallying’ around ganja issue, says minister
Friday, 21 April 2017As the debate over the legalisation of ganja for medical use heats up, Minister of Science, Energy and Technology Dr Andrew Wheatley has thrown down the gauntlet to his colleagues to speed up the pro ...
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Cannabis Licensing Authority begins work on Alternative Development Programme
Friday, 14 April 2017The Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) has commenced work to implement an Alternative Development Programme (ADP) to include Jamaica’s traditional farmers in the developing ganja industry. The progra ...
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Doctors want focus on benefits of ganja instead of profits
Wednesday, 12 April 2017The Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ) has slammed the focus on profits instead of studying the benefits of marijuana since its decriminalisation two years ago. "The decriminalisation of marijuana ...
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Medical ganja’s slow journey irks foreign investor
Sunday, 09 April 2017A foreign investor is expressing concern that Jamaica’s delay in establishing a medical ganja industry is providing other countries with the advantage to maximise from the opportunities to cement the ...
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Over-regulation impeding bloom of Jamaican cannabis industry
Tuesday, 04 April 2017Over-regulation of Jamaica’s cannabis industry is deterring farmers from entering the legal market, and impeding development - indicating why drug policies must be tailored to a country’s socioeconom ...
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Ganja data war - MOH backs drug watchdog in weed clash, lobbyist standing ground
Tuesday, 28 March 2017A standoff between the Ministry of Health minister and a lobbyist of the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) has forced the National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA) to defend its research methodology whi ...
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Small ganja farmers to get help to legalise cultivation
Monday, 20 March 2017The Government of Jamaica is to undertake a programme to help small ganja farmers benefit from a legal regulated cannabis industry. The project dubbed, the Alternative Development Programme, is to be ...
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Seiveright urges ganja farmers to look beyond ‘so so weed’
Thursday, 19 January 2017Delano Seiveright, a director of the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA), says that ganja growers should look beyond farming “so so weed” in seeking to benefit from the relaxation of legislation cover ...
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Chuck promises Rastas speedy approval of ganja requests
Monday, 12 December 2016Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has moved to assure members of the Rastafarian faith in Jamaica that their requests to transport ganja to be smoked as a religious sacrament will be granted expeditiousl ...
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Cannabis authority to grant conditional permits by year end
Monday, 21 November 2016The Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) in Jamaica expects to grant conditional licences by the end of the year for the growing and processing of ganja for medicinal and therapeutic purposes and resea ...
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The Global Forum of Producers of Prohibited Plants (GFPPP)
Thursday, 27 October 2016The voices of affected communities involved in the cultivation of coca leaf, opium poppy and cannabis plants are lacking in the global debate on drug policy reform in general and were at risk of bein ...
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A lot has happened and a lot has not happened
Thursday, 20 October 2016At the recently concluded 6th Latin American and 1st Caribbean Conference on Drug Policy, held in Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic, I started a discussion on the cannabis situation in Jamaica with a ...
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Panel: Advances towards Cannabis Regulation
Tuesday, 04 October 2016In spite of the prejudices and legal obstacles that persist in relation to a legal market for cannabis, it is undeniable that a strong movement towards the regulation of the cannabis market is emergi ...
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American says he wants to protect Jamaica’s natural ganja
Saturday, 24 September 2016Anticipating that original ganja strains are likely to become extinct after the new, legitimate ganja industry opens up in Jamaica, American businessman Mark Santiago has committed to taking equipmen ...
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Caribbean urged to rethink hard stance on marijuana
Thursday, 22 September 2016Chairman of the CARICOM Commission on Marijuana, Professor Wendel Abel, believes the Caribbean can benefit greatly from the decriminalisation of small quantities marijuana as well as allowing it to b ...
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Overseas backers push ganja co-op for Jamaica
Thursday, 15 September 2016A group of international investors is looking to partner with local interests, particularly small farmers to corner the local and export market for ganja. InCuBis International is working through the ...
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Cannabis in Latin America and the Caribbean
Thursday, 15 September 2016Cannabis (or marihuana) is one of the most widely consumed psychoactive substances in the world. According to the United Nations World Drug Report, 183 million people, or 3.8% of the world’s populati ...
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Jamaica proposes marijuana dispensers for tourists at airports following legalisation
Wednesday, 29 June 2016Jamaica is planning to install marijuana-dispensing kiosks for tourists who have a prescription for medical marijuana, in order to regulate a growing drug market and to bring in more government reven ...
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Thousands of Jamaicans see ganja records wiped clean
Wednesday, 15 June 2016Almost 4,000 Jamaicans who had criminal records for minor ganja offenses have so far been issued with clean Police certificates under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act passed in 2015. During a pres ...
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Smoke clears on cannabis licensing regime
Tuesday, 14 June 2016Over a year ago Jamaica brought about reform to the legal landscape with regards to ganja through the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act the (DDA). After the establishment of the Cannabis Licensing Auth ...
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Jamaica targets billions in taxes from weed
Saturday, 28 May 2016The Government is targeting annual revenue of US$2 billion from the ganja industry when regulations to govern the sector are finally in place. Minister of Science, Energy and Technology Dr Andrew Whe ...
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Weed sellers worry - Ganja vendors not sure how to interpret new rules
Saturday, 28 May 2016For years, one of the most open secrets was that the section of the Coronation Market ‘Grass Yard’ was the place to get ‘high-grade’ ganja in whatever quantity one desired. For the sellers, it seemed ...
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