Opinion - Across the breadth and width of Zimbabwe, the situation on production and distribution of cannabis is equally crooked and almost dysfunctional at the moment.
Across the breadth and width of Zimbabwe, the situation on production and distribution of cannabis is equally crooked and almost dysfunctional at the moment.
It is stirring to note that the Zimbabwean situation is replicated in South Africa where the World Health Organisation estimates that there are 900 000 producers of cannabis and in the last two years, 300 000 tonnes of the crop were reportedly exported illegally. When they have harvested the crop and are done preparing it for the market, samples are sent to the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe for testing to check if it meets the required standards.
It is critical for the Government to come in and help remove the hurdles that litter the production as well as marketing process. It may also become necessary for the Government to legalise all the cannabis strains -- medicinal, industrial and recreational and make sure they are all traded legally but come up with a way of regulating the goings-on on the side of the recreational category.
The licenced producers in Zimbabwe are currently finding the going very tough, thanks to the punitive costs involved in the crop's production.Overall, it is, therefore, not cheap for a budding producer to raise that amount from nothing, which means not many citizens will be able to participate in cannabis production.
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