Items tagged with jamaica
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Jamaica faces marijuana shortage as farmers struggle [05.02.2021] | Jamaica 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 ... |
Position Paper of the Fair Trade Cannabis Working Group in the Caribbean [29.10.2020] | The Position Paper "For inclusive business models, well designed laws and fair(er) trade options for small-scale traditional cannabis farmers” produc ... |
Special permit to enable more small farmers to enter medical cannabis field [28.09.2020] | The Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) says the Cultivator's (Transitional) Special Permit Policy, which is in an advanced stage of completion, will ... |
Gov't addressing banking challenges impacting cannabis industry [10.09.2020] | The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries is engaging international stakeholders to address the banking difficulties that have be ... |
Cannabis Regulation and Development [09.09.2020] | Significant policy shifts have led to an unprecedented boom in medical cannabis markets, while a growing number of countries are moving towards the l ... |
GGPAJ welcomes start of the consultation process on 'Special Permits' [04.07.2020] | The Ganja Growers and Producers Association (GGPA) welcomed the start of the consultation process for the special permit policy for the cannabis indu ... |
Growers association calls ganja industry a failed experiment [15.06.2020] | The Ganja Growers and Producers Association (GGPAJ) says despite the success of several Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) operators, Jamaica's regul ... |
As cannabis market softens, some investors pulling back [24.05.2020] | Aurora, 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 compan ... |
Licensed retail herb houses can now sell to qualified patients online [16.05.2020] | The Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) has established interim measures to facilitate online sales by licensed retail herb houses to registered patie ... |
Smokable cocaine markets in Latin America and the Caribbean [01.03.2020] | The smokable cocaine market was established decades ago, and is definitely not a new phenomenon. Rather than disappear, it is undergoing a slow expan ... |
Gov’t assisting transition of traditional ganja growers to legal industry [25.02.2020] | Minister of State for Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Floyd Green, says the Government, through its Alternative Development Programme ... |
Ganja growers want answers [07.02.2020] | Ganja growers are calling on the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) to clarify the conditions under which cannabis has been exported from Jamaica, ev ... |
Jamaica [31.12.2019] | Overview 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 ... |
CLA issues 50 cannabis licences in two years [08.12.2019] | The four-year-old Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) reached another major milestone last week by issuing its 50th licence for medicinal use of the d ... |
Inside the Walmart of weed [23.11.2019] | With Canada the largest nation to completely legalize marijuana, the world’s most valuable pot company, Canopy Growth Corp., founded in 2013 and now ... |
Glimmer of hope for cannabis industry as talks continue with US [31.10.2019] | Permanent secretary in the Ministry of Investment, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Dermon Spence has indicated that there could be headway in sig ... |
Jamaica joins global stock markets in bracing for impact of Cannabis Banking Bill [11.10.2019] | The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) has joined other stock markets across the globe in bracing for the impact of the Cannabis Banking Bill, which is cur ... |
Canada’s cannabis colonialism [09.10.2019] | Canadian weed companies have their eye on a massive prize: the lucrative medical and adult cannabis markets that are emerging around the world. Much ... |
'No plantation mentality!' [03.10.2019] | Noted cannabis advocate Ras Iyah V has issued a warning to prospective overseas investors who may have intentions of exploiting small ganja farmers t ... |
Strike cannabis off Controlled Substances Act [30.09.2019] | Cannabis guru Ras Iyah V says the time has come for developing nations, including those of the Caribbean, to collectively lobby the US to strike cann ... |
Shaw sees glimmer of banking hope for ganja businesses [27.09.2019] | Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Audley Shaw, has welcomed news of the passage of the SAFE Banking Act in the United States ... |
Ganja export regulations to be finalised September [16.08.2019] | The Jamaican Government is finalising legislation to allow for marijuana producers to export. Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheri ... |
Drug laws on possession: several countries are revisiting them and these are their options [02.08.2019] | Many countries are changing the way they approach people who use drugs. The Irish government has just announced possible alternatives to criminalisat ... |
Cannabis pilot project agreement signed in Accompong [10.07.2019] | A tripartite agreement was signed to implement a cannabis pilot programme in Accompong, St Elizabeth, under the Cannabis Licensing Authority's (CLA) ... |
CARICOM Secretary General addresses marijuana commission recommendations [06.07.2019] | Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Irwin LaRocque has warned the region against trading cannabis through member states. He made t ... |
Opposition MP calls for policy on cannabis [03.07.2019] | Opposition spokesman on tourism, Dr Wykeham McNeill is urging the Government to formulate a policy framework to define its position on cannabis. Cann ... |
Seiveright urges European stakeholders to bolster cannabis push [27.06.2019] | Director of the Cannabis Licensing Authority, Delano Seiveright, encouraged European stakeholders to continue to pursue further cannabis-related refo ... |
In the land with a rich history of growing weed, cannabis capitalism is an uneasy fit [05.06.2019] | There’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 ... |
Scientist in Jamaica finds, cultivates lost ganja [04.06.2019] | A 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 t ... |
Hope for cannabis growers [31.05.2019] | Jamaica is to lobby the United States on the issue of legitimising licensed cannabis growers and processors under correspondent banking rules. Audley ... |
Expert says new laws stifling legal ganja industry [22.05.2019] | Ganja growers and producers say regulations to the updated Dangerous Drugs Act (2015) are too stringent and pose a major impediment to those who repr ... |
Battle brewing [13.05.2019] | The Ganja Growers Producers Association Jamaica (GGPAJ) says it is strongly opposed to the Government's embrace of hemp cultivation and has made a nu ... |
Jamaicans are worried foreigners will take over the ganja market [04.05.2019] | 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 ... |
Paulwell joins lobby to get banking services for cannabis industry [03.05.2019] | The 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 ... |
People's Cooperative could solve ganja banking woes — Silvera [23.04.2019] | The Ganja Growers and Producers Association of Jamaica (GGPAJ) is proposing the National Peoples' Cooperative Bank as a solution to the banking servi ... |
Jamaica’s cannabis gamble [17.04.2019] | Jamaica is starting to think of cannabis as an opportunity. Uruguay, Canada and ten American states have legalised it for recreational use. Ganja, as ... |
Cannabis banking prospects improve; scepticism and stigma remain [10.04.2019] | The nascent medical cannabis business in Jamaica is challenged by limited access to banking facilities. Many of the major banks have asked clients en ... |
Fair(er) Trade Options for the Cannabis Market [21.03.2019] | Policy changes over the past five years or so have dramatically reshaped the global cannabis market. Not only has there been an unprecedented boom in ... |
CLA tasked with fast tracking cannabis licensing process [16.03.2019] | Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Floyd Green has directed the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) t ... |
Canadian company partners with Westmoreland farmers to grow ganja [08.03.2019] | Wiisag Corporation, a Canadian indigenous integrated cannabis company, has signed an agreement to partner with the Westmoreland Hemp and Ganga Farmer ... |
Sweet smell of success? Big business bets on a marijuana boom [02.03.2019] | To listen to some of the predictions about the future of the cannabis industry, you would think financial analysts had been partaking heavily of the ... |
What is required for Jamaica to export its hi-grade ganja [11.02.2019] | Jamaica’s decriminalisation of ganja in 2015 brought with it many expectations, one being the ability to export its hi-grade herb. With a relatively ... |
Westmoreland ganja farmers welcome pilot but... [21.01.2019] | One of the nation's leading ganja advocates, Ras Iyah V, has welcomed Prime Minister Andrew Holness' announcement that the pilot project for the Alte ... |
Small farmers to begin benefitting from ganja industry [08.01.2019] | Prime Minister Andrew Holness says that the Alternative Development Programme (ADP), which will provide an avenue for small ganja farmers to benefit ... |
Swiss eye local ganja [17.12.2018] | The possibilities for the explosion of Jamaica's medical marijuana industry have attracted the interest of another major multinational corporation th ... |
Please allow small farmers to benefit from ganja industry, says senator [30.10.2018] | Senator Kerensia Morrison is calling on the Government to ensure that small farmers and the little man are not left out of the emerging ganja/cannabi ... |
Canada's legalization of marijuana could hurt farmers in poorer countries [17.10.2018] | For 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 be ... |
Cannabis cultivation and consumption pattern in Jamaica 2017-2018 [26.09.2018] | Fifty-three per cent of cannabis enthusiasts want Jamaica to fully legalise cannabis while 27 per cent want Jamaica to legalise but with strict contr ... |
Agriculture minister seeks to link small ganja farmers with large processors [10.09.2018] | Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Audley Shaw, says he is looking to link small ganja farmers with large processors who have ... |
Ganja: Discovering the future [22.08.2018] | Despite 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 coun ... |
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