Goa mulls allowing cannabis plantation for medicinal use
Tue, Dec 29 2020 08:43:06 PM
Panaji, Dec 29 (IANS): The Goa government is considering a proposal to permit legal farming of cannabis in the state, strictly for medicinal purposes, Law Minister Nilesh Cabral said on Tuesday.
Cabral said that the proposal was moved by the Health Department and added that bhang is being sold legally in other states, similar to liquor sale in Goa. The file came to us from the law department. We have only vetted it from the legal perspective, he added.
The proposal moots the possibility of allowing controlled farming of marijuana for medicinal purpose, so that the natural drug could be sold to pharmaceutical companies.
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