Rules are not made to be broken. The principles that underpin the development and use of therapies from cannabis are not to be “juggled”. Globally, we are now seeing the calamity caused by breaking these rules. The list of examples is long. These include using cheaper, fake ingredients in products, mixing cannabis flowers with lookalike plants, selling “mould-ridden” plants to clients, and peddling fake certificates of analysis.
The cannabis plant is a scavenger, thus cultivating cannabis in soil polluted with contaminants and rich in heavy metals will taint the safety profile of the plant. Clearly, unsafe cannabis products are reaching the global marketplace. Some of these products are linked to patient deaths and some have been identified by regulatory agencies and pulled from the market in ways that have felled companies and destroyed investors.
Conscious Jamaican cultivators are watching this situation fully aware that this country needs only one such publicised incident to derail fortunes and destroy our fledgling medical cannabis industry. We need to avoid impending calamity, shift our horizon towards a science-led vision for the Jamaican cannabis industry. We know that “puss and dawg nuh have the same luck”.
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