Tag: jamaica
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Hill touts legalised ganja sale to tourists
Saturday, 21 October 2023Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce of Jamaica, Senator Aubyn Hill, has suggested the legalised sale of marijuana to visitors as a way for Jamaica to earn revenue from countries that do not ...
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The predatory perils of cannabis legalization in Jamaica
Tuesday, 26 September 2023Jamaica revised its ganja laws to build a legal medicinal cannabis industry with the hopes of exporting to the world. Many assumed that Jamaica, and the historically marginalized traditional ganja gr ...
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Legal but locked out
Wednesday, 14 June 2023As Jamaica continues to promote medicinal cannabis to attract investors and spur the industry's development, entrepreneurs face significant hurdles due to the fact that, while their businesses are le ...
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Jamaican ganja farmers outraged after licence granted to import Canadian herb
Sunday, 26 February 2023Some local ganja farmers are fuming over reports that a licence has been granted to a company to import Canadian cannabis into Jamaica. Speaking inside the ‘Jamaica Cannabis Industry Forum’ WhatsApp ...
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Golding promises special treatment for small farmers, Rastas, Maroons in ganja industry
Sunday, 18 September 2022Small farmers, the Maroons and Rastafarians are to be given special treatment in the ganja industry whenever the People’s National Party (PNP) next forms the Government in Jamaica. That commitment wa ...
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Cannabis funding needed
Wednesday, 17 August 2022The recommendation follows the completion of a market study of the cannabis industry in Jamaica, which revealed that funding is one of the major impediments in the industry. The FTC report, which was ...
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Ganja lobby turns heat on Gov’t in defence of small farmers
Friday, 25 February 2022The Ganja Growers and Producers Association Jamaica (GGPAJ) has called for an immediate two-year incentive programme for marijuana cultivators, especially for small, traditional, Rastafarian and indi ...
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A roundup of countries that permit recreational cannabis
Friday, 15 October 2021Marijuana may be an issue of easy agreement in the ongoing coalition talks between Germany's leading parties. Despite numerous points of contention, the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), neoliberal ...
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MPs accuse Cannabis Licensing Authority of ignoring small farmers
Thursday, 08 July 2021The Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) and the State have been accused of having no real interest in ensuring that small farmers get their fair share of the legal marijuana pie, as pilot cultivation ...
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The Future of Cannabis in the Caribbean
Friday, 23 April 2021Two years after the presentation of the 2018 CARICOM report “Waiting to Exhale - Safeguarding our future through responsible socio-legal policy on Marijuana” at the CND, this years’ side event the or ...
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A Sustainable Future for Cannabis Farmers
Friday, 16 April 2021Learn how lessening the barriers for small farmers while raising them for large companies can help to steer legal cannabis markets in a more sustainable and equitable direction based on principles of ...
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New chairman of CLA wants ganja industry to earn maximum benefits globally
Friday, 02 April 2021Reforming the Cannabis industry into one which earns maximum benefits globally, is the goal of newly appointed Chairman for the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA), LeVaughn Flynn. Flynn, who has writ ...
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Golding pledges to overhaul ganja industry
Tuesday, 16 March 2021Leader of the Opposition, Mark Golding, says Jamaica's ganja industry can assist in the economic recovery of the island, providing much needed foreign exchange and creating employment. Should his par ...
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Ganja growers want meeting with Industry Minister, call for amnesty
Friday, 12 March 2021The Ganja Growers Association Jamaica (GGPAJ) has called for a meeting the Ministry of Industry Investment & Commerce (MIIC) to discuss the issue of ganja growers, their licenses, the impending and l ...
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Jamaica faces marijuana shortage as farmers struggle
Friday, 05 February 2021Jamaica is running low on ganja. Heavy rains followed by an extended drought, an increase in local consumption and a drop in the number of marijuana farmers have caused a shortage in the island’s fam ...
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Position Paper of the Fair Trade Cannabis Working Group in the Caribbean
Thursday, 29 October 2020The Position Paper "For inclusive business models, well designed laws and fair(er) trade options for small-scale traditional cannabis farmers” produced by The Fair(er) Trade Cannabis Working Group ai ...
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Special permit to enable more small farmers to enter medical cannabis field
Monday, 28 September 2020The Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) says the Cultivator's (Transitional) Special Permit Policy, which is in an advanced stage of completion, will enable more small and subsistence farmers to acces ...
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Gov't addressing banking challenges impacting cannabis industry
Thursday, 10 September 2020The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries is engaging international stakeholders to address the banking difficulties that have been impacting Jamaica's medical cannabis industry. ...
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Cannabis Regulation and Development
Wednesday, 09 September 2020Significant policy shifts have led to an unprecedented boom in medical cannabis markets, while a growing number of countries are moving towards the legal regulation of adult non-medical use. This tre ...
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GGPAJ welcomes start of the consultation process on 'Special Permits'
Saturday, 04 July 2020The Ganja Growers and Producers Association (GGPA) welcomed the start of the consultation process for the special permit policy for the cannabis industry. The Cannabis Licencing Authority (CLA) said ...
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Growers association calls ganja industry a failed experiment
Monday, 15 June 2020The Ganja Growers and Producers Association (GGPAJ) says despite the success of several Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) operators, Jamaica's regulated cannabis industry has failed to live up to it ...
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As cannabis market softens, some investors pulling back
Sunday, 24 May 2020Aurora, a Canadian listed cannabis company, has sold its Jamaica asset for less than its CDN$4.5 million valuation in order to get cash. “The company also accepted an offer to sell its Jamaica prope ...
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Licensed retail herb houses can now sell to qualified patients online
Saturday, 16 May 2020The Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) has established interim measures to facilitate online sales by licensed retail herb houses to registered patients in keeping with the Government's initiatives t ...
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Smokable cocaine markets in Latin America and the Caribbean
Sunday, 01 March 2020The smokable cocaine market was established decades ago, and is definitely not a new phenomenon. Rather than disappear, it is undergoing a slow expansion: from constituting a rather localized and iso ...
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Gov’t assisting transition of traditional ganja growers to legal industry
Tuesday, 25 February 2020Minister of State for Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Floyd Green, says the Government, through its Alternative Development Programme (ADP), is committed to assisting traditional canna ...
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Ganja growers want answers
Friday, 07 February 2020Ganja growers are calling on the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) to clarify the conditions under which cannabis has been exported from Jamaica, even before the passage of the import/export regulat ...
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Jamaica
Tuesday, 31 December 2019Overview of drug policy, drug law and legislative trends in Jamaica As an island that is viewed as the mecca of cannabis culture, many are surprised to learn that Jamaica is only now in the midst of ...
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CLA issues 50 cannabis licences in two years
Sunday, 08 December 2019The four-year-old Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) reached another major milestone last week by issuing its 50th licence for medicinal use of the drug. The 50th licensee is Outlier Biopharma, a Mon ...
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Inside the Walmart of weed
Saturday, 23 November 2019With Canada the largest nation to completely legalize marijuana, the world’s most valuable pot company, Canopy Growth Corp., founded in 2013 and now worth about $6.4 billion, is one of the most contr ...
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Glimmer of hope for cannabis industry as talks continue with US
Thursday, 31 October 2019Permanent secretary in the Ministry of Investment, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Dermon Spence has indicated that there could be headway in sight for the difficulties with banking for the local ...
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Jamaica joins global stock markets in bracing for impact of Cannabis Banking Bill
Friday, 11 October 2019The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) has joined other stock markets across the globe in bracing for the impact of the Cannabis Banking Bill, which is currently before the US Congress. Having already been ...
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Canada’s cannabis colonialism
Wednesday, 09 October 2019Canadian weed companies have their eye on a massive prize: the lucrative medical and adult cannabis markets that are emerging around the world. Much of the hype around corporate cannabis is linked to ...
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'No plantation mentality!'
Thursday, 03 October 2019Noted cannabis advocate Ras Iyah V has issued a warning to prospective overseas investors who may have intentions of exploiting small ganja farmers to line their own pockets. "Don't come with the sug ...
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Strike cannabis off Controlled Substances Act
Monday, 30 September 2019Cannabis guru Ras Iyah V says the time has come for developing nations, including those of the Caribbean, to collectively lobby the US to strike cannabis from its Controlled Substances Act. “It is im ...
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Shaw sees glimmer of banking hope for ganja businesses
Friday, 27 September 2019Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Audley Shaw, has welcomed news of the passage of the SAFE Banking Act in the United States, which could lay the foundation for addressing co ...
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Ganja export regulations to be finalised September
Friday, 16 August 2019The Jamaican Government is finalising legislation to allow for marijuana producers to export. Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Audley Shaw says producers could potentially ea ...
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Drug laws on possession: several countries are revisiting them and these are their options
Friday, 02 August 2019Many countries are changing the way they approach people who use drugs. The Irish government has just announced possible alternatives to criminalisation for possession of some drugs. Other countries, ...
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Cannabis pilot project agreement signed in Accompong
Wednesday, 10 July 2019A tripartite agreement was signed to implement a cannabis pilot programme in Accompong, St Elizabeth, under the Cannabis Licensing Authority's (CLA) Alternative Development Programme. The agreement w ...
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CARICOM Secretary General addresses marijuana commission recommendations
Saturday, 06 July 2019Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Irwin LaRocque has warned the region against trading cannabis through member states. He made the comments at a press briefing, ahead of the 40th ...
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Opposition MP calls for policy on cannabis
Wednesday, 03 July 2019Opposition spokesman on tourism, Dr Wykeham McNeill is urging the Government to formulate a policy framework to define its position on cannabis. Cannabis could provide opportunities, including a new ...
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Seiveright urges European stakeholders to bolster cannabis push
Thursday, 27 June 2019Director of the Cannabis Licensing Authority, Delano Seiveright, encouraged European stakeholders to continue to pursue further cannabis-related reforms in their respective countries as it will, in p ...
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In the land with a rich history of growing weed, cannabis capitalism is an uneasy fit
Wednesday, 05 June 2019There’s a hint of disappointment in Courtney Betty’s voice when he talks about the present state of Jamaica’s legal medicinal cannabis regime. “I don’t think some of the companies coming in to do bus ...
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Scientist in Jamaica finds, cultivates lost ganja
Tuesday, 04 June 2019A supreme ganja, smoked by Rastas and even Bob Marley himself in the 1970s? This pipe dream of every ganja aficionado is becoming reality thanks to the horticultural talents of scientist Dr Machel Em ...
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Hope for cannabis growers
Friday, 31 May 2019Jamaica is to lobby the United States on the issue of legitimising licensed cannabis growers and processors under correspondent banking rules. Audley Shaw — Jamaica's minister of industry, commerce, ...
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Expert says new laws stifling legal ganja industry
Wednesday, 22 May 2019Ganja growers and producers say regulations to the updated Dangerous Drugs Act (2015) are too stringent and pose a major impediment to those who represent the backbone of the industry, and, by extens ...
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Battle brewing
Monday, 13 May 2019The Ganja Growers Producers Association Jamaica (GGPAJ) says it is strongly opposed to the Government's embrace of hemp cultivation and has made a number of demands designed to protect the local cann ...
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Jamaicans are worried foreigners will take over the ganja market
Saturday, 04 May 2019Since 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 fo ...
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Paulwell joins lobby to get banking services for cannabis industry
Friday, 03 May 2019The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) is again being pressed about its role in charting the way forward to enable the legal cannabis industry to access financial services and become a part of the formal economy. ...
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People's Cooperative could solve ganja banking woes — Silvera
Tuesday, 23 April 2019The Ganja Growers and Producers Association of Jamaica (GGPAJ) is proposing the National Peoples' Cooperative Bank as a solution to the banking services conundrum in which the country's fledgling leg ...
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Jamaica’s cannabis gamble
Wednesday, 17 April 2019Jamaica is starting to think of cannabis as an opportunity. Uruguay, Canada and ten American states have legalised it for recreational use. Ganja, as Jamaicans call it, is a “growth-oriented industry ...
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