Monday, February 8, 2021

Commodities: "Jamaica faces marijuana shortage as farmers struggle"

From the Associated Press:

Jamaica is running low on ganja.

Heavy rains followed by an extended drought, an increase in local consumption and a drop in the number of marijuana farmers have caused a shortage in the island’s famed but largely illegal market that experts say is the worst they’ve seen.

“It’s a cultural embarrassment,” said Triston Thompson, chief opportunity explorer for Tacaya, a consulting and brokerage firm for the country’s nascent legal cannabis industry.

Jamaica, which foreigners have long associated with pot, reggae and Rastafarians, authorized a regulated medical marijuana industry and decriminalized small amounts of weed in 2015....

....MUCH MORE, including comments from "Paul Burke, CEO of Jamaica’s Ganja Growers and Producers Association" 

Probably unrelated, from Jamaica's The Gleaner last year:

Democratic socialism ruined Jamaica