With countries across the world increasingly embracing or at least diligently probing the medical options afforded by marijuana, the tiny CARICOM island group of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is reportedly moving to accelerate the development of its cannabis industry, according to a release sent to the Stabroek Business from the Jamaican Com-munication Consultants, Berl Francis & Associates.
According to the release, having established its own Medicinal Canna-bis Authority (MCA) in 2018, the authorities there have issued licences to traditional cannabis farmers to legitimise the cultivation of the crop. Since then, SVG has moved to recruit Dr. André Gordon, Chief Executive Officer of the Jamaican firm TSL Technical Services Limited (TTSL) to train the farmers and to assist in the upgrading of the capabilities of the technical officers attached to the country’s MCA.
