Jamaicans are worried foreigners will take over the ganja market
Who is going to profit from this? Jamaicans, or somebody else?
Vice (US)
Saturday, May 4, 2019
Saturday, May 4, 2019
Since 2015, Jamaica has become the site of a ganja gold rush, as foreign investors pump in money and set up shop on the island. Smaller local farmers, many of whom were being harassed and punished for growing in the past, simply can’t compete. Some locals see this as another extensions of colonial inaction. “I'm not saying all of these investors coming in are evil,” says Ras Iyah V, an activist who has been fighting for ganja legalization for years. “I'm just saying most of these coming in are concerned with money. About making money out of an industry that our people have suffered for.”
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