So, while the BDF continues to expend major resources and manpower to eradicate marijuana, the PUP says it’s a waste and one that should stop. In a statement earlier this week, Party Leader John Briceno proposed full legalization of marijuana - and turning it into an export industry.
Today, the Deputy Prime Minister said that the government is considering the development of an industry for a marijuana by product, industrial hemp:…
Hon. Patrick Faber - Deputy Prime Minister
"But there are areas that I think are useful, if you would sit and think about them, we might be able to get things going indeed, if it is he's genuine about trying to advance our economy as a result of some kind of trade or similar trading in marijuana, and that is hemp. You remember some time ago we made it perfectly legal to advance trade with hemp, I think the finer tunes of legislation needs to be worked out and I think that was common ground in the Cabinet, that we should start looking at that. There is medicinal value to marijuana and if there is something that we can do with pharmaceutical companies that allow us to develop our economy, I believe we should do that, I'm certainly not against that, but legalizing it in Belize is another story, we have to be very careful, that's a very dangerous area to thread."
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