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Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has announced that his government plans to put legislation in place for the legal production of cannabis for medicinal purposes before the end of the year.<\/p>\n
He made the announcement during a press conference on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cIn so far as putting the legislation in place and so forth, I believe before the end of this year we will have the legislation in place and the mechanism for certification and licensing and providing of permits to persons who are interested in legal production of cannabis for medicinal purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued, \u201cThe issue of cannabis, the Minister of Finance would have articulated certain policy positions of the government in its efforts to further the country\u2019s ability to be part of this growing industry.”<\/p>\n
The prime minister plans to engage stakeholders in discussion as far as cannabis is concerned.<\/p>\n
According to him, there is also a national committee to spearhead those efforts.<\/p>\n
He said there are several issues that this national committee and the consultation must take into consideration, especially in regards to the transacting with cannabis by-products.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause as you know banks are not prepared to engage in this because it is still illegal in many countries around the world,\u201d Skerrit stated. \u201cAnd so this is something that we have to navigate around \u00a0and to see whether the banking system can come to an appreciation that the by-products are crucial for health and wellness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has announced that his government plans to put legislation in place for the legal production of cannabis for medicinal purposes before the end of the year. He made the announcement during a press conference on Monday….","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":338638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,235,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-homepage-carousel","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n