Smoking out ganja [marijuana] controversies
A couple of weeks ago, the Senate in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) approved the Cannabis Control Bill which seeks to legalise and regulate the commercial use and sale of ganja [marijuana]. The Bill permits the establishment of a T&T Cannabis Licensing Authority to issue licences for the cultivation and distribution of marijuana for medical and religious purposes.
Trinidad and Tobago has been blessed in more ways than one. In the agricultural sector, the Moruga Scorpion pepper shot into the international spotlight as the “hottest pepper in the world.” The native soil has also produced Trinitario varieties of cocoa that are used by international manufacturers such as Ferrero, Cadbury, Nestlé, Mars, Hershey and Dove to flavour their chocolate products. T&T may well have the best soil, climate and technology to produce a unique variety of marijuana in the world.
In the bid to diversify the economy, medical marijuana cultivation may well be the antidote. T&T should take a leaf from the page of the marijuana plantation and industry in Colorado in the USA named (interestingly) The Trinidad Harvesting Company. The licensed agricultural, medical and retail operation is located at Freedom Road (interesting name again) in the city’s industrial park. Colorado’s US $1-billion-dollar marijuana industry is flying high. It has breathed new life into rural, agricultural communities that are dying. T&T too can construct marijuana plantations, factories and dispensaries to create jobs and generate revenue for the State.
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Smoking out ganja [marijuana] controversies
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DR. VITRA GOSINE – U.S.A. endocrinologist and owner of The Center for Integrative and Functional Endocrinology & Lotus Life (The Center for Holistic Health & Conscious Living).
JAVED BAKSH – Former ICT specialist, now Managing Director of GrassLab Herbal Supplements, Trinidad’s first registered medical cannabis consultancy and dispensary.
GLENROY ‘BONGO GREASE’ HALLS – Chairman of the All Mansions of Rastafari, Nyahbinghi Elder, and International Coordinator of the Rastafari global community.
DRS. RANDHIR NANDA – Psychiatrist, Addiction Care Cluster (Detoxification and the Addiction Care). Lecturer of psychiatry (ADEK, Medical University of Suriname).
DR. KUMAR MAHABIR – Medical anthropologist, university lecturer, and author of the bestseller Medicinal and Edible Plants used by East Indians of Trinidad and Tobago.
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