The Barbados Medicinal Cannabis Licensing Authority is hoping to see some cannabis-based businesses established this year. The authority's communications and public education specialist Tracy Moore said they had ten licensees and things were looking promising. She was speaking to the DAILY NATION recently during their fourth anniversary Open Day at its Wildey Mall, St Michael office.
"We have ten licensees, which are individual businesses, as well as 33 licenses at the University of the West Indies. People are now building out their businesses; there's a misconception where people think that once you get your licenses, you can start, but the licenses say you can now start building out. So people are building out, and we're hoping during 2025 that we see some businesses pop up," she said.
During a debate in the House of Assembly last Friday on a resolution to vest 18 acres of land at Searles, Christ Church, Opposition Leader Ralph Thorne criticized the Barbados Labour Party administration's management of the medicinal marijuana initiative, which he described as a waste of resources.
"Millions of dollars have been spent on this project and what do we have to show for it? Not a single blade of marijuana grown. Meanwhile, lands originally designated for marijuana cultivation remain idle," he said.
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