The Barbados government says the medicinal cannabis industry will get underway in January next year, giving the assurances also that interested persons will be allowed to enter the sector, but not at the same time.
Agriculture and Food Security Minister, Indar Weir, also made it clear that when the industry gets started it will not be a repeat of the sugar industry.
“The industry must get started…. People will be allowed to enter, [but] not everybody is going to be able to start at the same time,” he told a public forum on the medicinal cannabis industry.
Weir said that countries such as Jamaica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines started before Barbados, but did not issue a lot of licenses.
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