Zimbabwe legalises marijuana for medicinal, scientific uses
Zimbabwe legalises marijuana for medicinal, scientific uses
Zimbabwe has become the second African country to legalise marijuana for medical and scientific purposes. Health minister, Dr David Parirenyatwa, says individuals and businesses would be able to apply for licences to cultivate Cannabis sativa. The licences will be valid for five years and will also allow growers to possess, transport and sell fresh cannabis, cannabis oil, and the dried product. CGTN’s Farai Mwakutuya has more from Harare.
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Yay this will help there nation
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This should have been done a long time ago. It seems like the world follows American and European beliefs and laws. It’s becoming legalized now because it’s more accepted in the West. When America made it illegal other places around the world followed suit. Stop letting whites dictate to you whats right and wrong.
Legalize it!!!!!! #weednotbrew how can you abuse marijuana you can’t even overdose with marijuana. You can smoke all day drive around and be ok. One can drink all day and barely walk to the bathroom. LEGALIZE IT!!! OFFSET THE CARBON IN THE AIR by growing green. 😻💪🏿👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Africa is rising!!! Salutes from 🇪🇸
Zimbabwe has just legalized growing marijuana for medicinal and research purposes — and several other African governments are considering tapping into the lucrative natural resource too.
More than 100,000 tons of cannabis are produced on the continent each year, 10 times the amount reported a decade ago according to a UN survey, which advocates believe could be worth trillions of dollars in a rapidly expanding global market for legal weed and release many African nations from European debt in the process.
Until recently African governments had not yet followed the trend of legalization seen in Europe and the Americas. However last year, Lesotho became the continent’s first country to offer legal licenses to grow marijuana, signaling a wider shift toward more liberal policies. Not to mention the 65000 products that hemp industry can create and the entrepreneurial investments therein.
From Morocco to South Africa, there is growing interest in cashing in on a valuable crop! Lesotho
The tiny, landlocked nation has few natural resources. But Lesotho is a giant of the marijuana trade.
"Cannabis is grown almost everywhere in the country," a UNESCO report found, noting the industry is a leading contributor to the economy in a country plagued by poverty. Much of this comes through illicit trade with Lesotho’s larger, richer neighbor, South Africa.The government has now signaled its intentions to bring the business out of the shadows by awarding the first license for cultivation and sale to South African alternative medicine company Verve Dynamics. Zimbabwe
The southern African country has become the second nation on the continent to legalize the production of marijuana for scientific and medicinal use.Known locally as "mbanje," Zimbabweans can now apply for a license to cultivate marijuana.Previously, possessing, growing or using cannabis in Zimbabwe was illegal, and could come with sentences of up to 12 years in jail.The renewable license permits companies and individuals to produce marijuana for five years. Malawi
Malawi is well known for the prevalence and quality of marijuana production within its borders, including the sought after "Malawi Gold" strain.The government is now cultivating hemp on a trial basis,Hemp textile investments are also a major focus of this nation! Ghana
Ghanaians are heavy consumers of marijuana, according to the UNODC, which is prohibited but widely tolerated.A pro-legalization campaign has been gathering momentum in recent years, with support from the former head of the Narcotics Control Board. The movement recently received another boost when the executive director of the Ghana Standards Authority suggested that state-led cultivation and export of marijuana could generate valuable income in areas of cattle feed, pharmaceuticals and by expanding export of hemp foods to China!. Swaziland
The continent’s last absolute monarchy is plagued by poverty, but boasts an abundance of marijuana.
Prominent public figures have suggested using the Hemp and canabis crop to boost the economy, including Swaziland’s housing and development minister, while the national commissioner of police has called for a study.If this goes through the average citizen could see AN ANNUAL REVENUE INCREASE 30 TIMES THE CURRENT RATE! Several legal battles are ongoing over the future of Cannabis in South Africa. The Dagga Party won a landmark ruling this year to permit smoking in the home on privacy grounds, without changing the legal status of the herb.
The so-called "dagga couple" Julian Stobbs and Myrtle Clarke are going further in seeking the right to grow and consume marijuana, which could establish a far-reaching precedent.
The South African government has already published guidelines for medical marijuana, paving the way for legal licenses. Simultaneously hempcrete as a building material is expanding nationally with several world acknowledged building and housing projects including a community center showing the value of this highly sought resource! Some African countries continue to pay colonial tax to France 50 years after their independence. This system has been calledan abomination destined to keep African countries poor forever but hemp and cannabis have afforded these nations a loophole to build infrastructure and escape debt! France is not ready to move from that colonial system which puts about 500 billions dollars from Africa to its treasury year in year out. But creating an agricultural infrastructure with Hemp can insulate and keep profit and materials for wealth in these former colonies. By requiring as the US once did that all farmers farm Hemp on part of their land to support the nation the hemp could be used for thousands of infrastructure building projects including construction, health,clothing,and food supplies as well as cattle feed!Also French banks cannot request profit from cannabis as it is still illegal and would open the door for massive reforms in hemp and cannabis expansion they are unwilling to make
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My brothers ! Exiting times we live in. Let the flow of trade begin through the borders to South Africa, our white need this medicine desperately for the proper development of their young cultures .
Why The Gambia should also legalized Cannabis?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3vT3e1JeUM
about time, there has been mounting scientific evidence that cannabis oil ha medicinal benefits, they need to legalise this in somalia as well
Hemp can also be used for a multitude of things in manufacturing! Right on Zimbabwe
kenya next
What risks??
I’m moving to Zimbabwe respect family..
Rather marijuana than tobacco and alcohol which really damage health
legalize for recreational use Zim will be no 1 tourist destination in africa
☉☥Good we need spiritual healing☥⚖🖒☉❤🖒
We are also coming the Gambia we most legalize it….Free marijuana
We don’t even have psychiatric hospitals in Zimbabwe.,Make sure you have drug services with trained members of staff. It is not something that is simply done without looking at other factors. If at the moment people duffering from schizophrenia are just left loitering on streets because the government does not care about them, what about when that number increases? Who is responsible for people who have a mental health problem? Is it just the Ministry of health? No . The police, Social services and the Ministry of Justice. How are these ministries interlinked currently to help people with mental health problems? They are not. Zimbabwe would need an effective framework ranging from reviewing The mental health act, and in it highlighting the role of the police in as far as detentions are concerned , the role of parents, members of the general public and the role of Social services, mainly approved mental health professions who would institute lawful detentions under the said act. Do we have psychiatrists on duty both during the day or night to assess legally those who would have been detained. Do we have safe places and not prison cells to detain people with drug induced psychosis? No. Do you want to handcuff them ? Is that what they deserve? You can’t handcuff them because they would not have committed an offence. Don’t take this issue of cannabis lightly. Train psychiatrists 2 available within a distance of 50 km. Train drug and mental health nurses. Build psychiatric hospitals in every town , make sure the government has medication to treat psychosis and medication to curb withdrawal symptoms. It is good to introduce it for medicinal purposes but let us the government not rush to focus only on the economic benefits lest the benefits can be reduced to zero by the consequences caused.
Okay like Florida and California USA you legalized Marijuana now you need Disneyland!
Lol, Zimbabwe is very desperate now to wind up their economy after they’ve been pushing it into catastrophe for decades, But at least they’re starting to learn from their mistakes
You can grow weed instead of 🌽. What’s the problem????
Jah Bless Em 🤲
It will heal the nation, Bob marley loved Zimbabwe. This is to honor Bob. People need to be educated abt medical Marijuana coz it can cure many diseases. Uganda is next 🇺🇬.