The Agriculture Ministry will revise a 2020 ministerial decree that lists cannabis as a “medicinal plant” under the ministry’s supervision.
Signed on Feb. 3, the decree includes cannabis (Cannabis sativa) as one of 66 medicinal plants whose production is under the supervision of the ministry’s horticulture directorate general.
The ministry responded that it would revise the decree because of Agriculture Minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo’s commitment to “eradicate drug abuse”.
“The decree will be revised soon, after we coordinate with the National Narcotics Agency [BNN], the Health Ministry and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences [LIPI],” the ministry’s vegetable and medicinal plant director, Tommy Nugraha, said in a statement on Saturday.
Read more at thejakartapost.com