GOVT REVIEWING LAW ON DAGGA
MANZINI – Government is now reviewing legislation for the control of cannabis for medicinal and research purpose.
The move by government has been viewed as putting the cart before the horse by pessimists who have been beguiled by reports that government promised an American company a monopoly for growing cannabis for medicinal purposes.
Profile Solutions Inc (PSIQ) announced the receipt of approval from the Eswatini Government’s Economic Planning and Development Ministry for establishing a growing farm as well as a processing plant for cannabis and hemp for medical use.
The company said this would be an investment of US$5 million, approximately E65 million.
However, government has been vehemently denying ever signing or even mulling to sign such an agreement.
Amid wide speculations, Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Dr Simon Zwane, came out yesterday to try and clear the air, by saying his ministry had written to the Attorney General’s Office requesting assistance with the review of the respective pieces of legislation and the drafting of the regulations for the control of cannabis for medicinal use and research purposes.
He said the ministry had also consulted a number of countries within the region and beyond, and local government departments to benchmark the regulations of cannabis for medicinal use and research purposes.
The Ministry of Health is the custodian of the Opium and Habit Forming Drugs Act of 1922, and it is this piece of legislation that mandates the Minister of Health to issue a licence for the cultivation and manufacture of cannabis for medicinal purposes.
Section 4 of the same Act provides that:
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