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Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw (left) shares a light moment with entrepreneur and the Founder of the CanEx Jamaica Business Conference and Expo, Douglas Gordon, at the ground-breaking ceremony of Virtudes Hemp Farm in Lennox Bigwoods, Westmoreland.

Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw says protocols are being developed to prevent cross- pollination of medicinal hemp sites and formal cannabis cultivation sites in order to safeguard the local marijuana industry.
A four to 10miles buffer methodology is being proposed similarly to that which is used across the United States and in other jurisdictions.
“Industrial hemp will not be considered because of the high risk it poses to our indigenous ganja industry. Feminised medicinal hemp is what we have approved...only female plants will be used...