Items tagged with jamaica and traditional growers
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The predatory perils of cannabis legalization in Jamaica [26.09.2023] | Jamaica revised its ganja laws to build a legal medicinal cannabis industry with the hopes of exporting to the world. Many assumed that Jamaica, and ... |
Jamaican ganja farmers outraged after licence granted to import Canadian herb [26.02.2023] | Some local ganja farmers are fuming over reports that a licence has been granted to a company to import Canadian cannabis into Jamaica. Speaking insi ... |
Golding promises special treatment for small farmers, Rastas, Maroons in ganja industry [18.09.2022] | Small farmers, the Maroons and Rastafarians are to be given special treatment in the ganja industry whenever the People’s National Party (PNP) next f ... |
Cannabis funding needed [17.08.2022] | The recommendation follows the completion of a market study of the cannabis industry in Jamaica, which revealed that funding is one of the major impe ... |
Ganja lobby turns heat on Gov’t in defence of small farmers [25.02.2022] | The Ganja Growers and Producers Association Jamaica (GGPAJ) has called for an immediate two-year incentive programme for marijuana cultivators, espec ... |
MPs accuse Cannabis Licensing Authority of ignoring small farmers [08.07.2021] | The Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) and the State have been accused of having no real interest in ensuring that small farmers get their fair share ... |
The Future of Cannabis in the Caribbean [23.04.2021] | Two years after the presentation of the 2018 CARICOM report “Waiting to Exhale - Safeguarding our future through responsible socio-legal policy on Ma ... |
A Sustainable Future for Cannabis Farmers [16.04.2021] | Learn how lessening the barriers for small farmers while raising them for large companies can help to steer legal cannabis markets in a more sustaina ... |
Golding pledges to overhaul ganja industry [16.03.2021] | Leader of the Opposition, Mark Golding, says Jamaica's ganja industry can assist in the economic recovery of the island, providing much needed foreig ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
'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 ... |
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) ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Partnership critical for ganja industry success - SRC head [06.07.2018] | Executive Director of the Scientific Research Council (SRC) Dr Cliff Riley has underscored the importance of working partnerships that acknowledge an ... |
The facts about ganja in Jamaica [21.01.2018] | When the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2015 came into effect on April 15, 2015, new provisions were put in place regarding the possession and smoki ... |
Small ganja farmers to get help to legalise cultivation [20.03.2017] | The Government of Jamaica is to undertake a programme to help small ganja farmers benefit from a legal regulated cannabis industry. The project dubbe ... |
The Global Forum of Producers of Prohibited Plants (GFPPP) [27.10.2016] | The voices of affected communities involved in the cultivation of coca leaf, opium poppy and cannabis plants are lacking in the global debate on drug ... |
Ganja ready for the big times [17.09.2015] | Going by the announcement by Canada-based Timeless Herbal Care Limited (THC), Jamaica stands to benefit from a US$100-million deal to develop medical ... |
The tragedy of the ganja policy [08.08.2015] | The amendment of the Dangerous Drugs Act 2015 in February has laid the foundation for the development of the policy framework governing a ganja indus ... |
None but ourselves can 'free' the weed [04.07.2015] | Traditional small ganja farmers in Jamaica, accustomed to clandestinely working their fields, will now have to adhere to strict regulations in order ... |
Ganja is our 'life blood' – western farmers [01.06.2015] | With Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Minister Phillip Paulwell stating that Jamaica plans to become a world leader in exploiting the economic ... |
Canadian company to tap into Jamaica for medicinal cannabis supply [04.04.2015] | A Canadian company is seeking to tap into the Jamaican market for the supply of dried marijuana to the medicinal marijuana industry in Canada. Market ... |
Farmers encouraged to make use of ganja opportunities [18.03.2015] | Small ganja farmers across the island are being encouraged to make use of the opportunities that will be available in the medicinal ganja industry. S ... |
Ganja decriminalisation: Three the hard way [02.03.2015] | February 24, 2015 was an especially emotional day for three of the stalwarts who have fought for the decriminalisation of ganja. It was the day the H ... |
Ganja interests wary of internal business rivalry [31.01.2015] | Despite strong ministerial and legislative signals, segments of the marijuana lobby are unsure that sufficient protections will be afforded to the pe ... |
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