Antigua’s Medicinal Cannabis Authority (MCA) has awarded its first license to Grow marijuana.
Antigua’s MCA chairman, Daven Joseph, who spoke at the ceremony where the first licence was handed over, said “the total number of persons that are predicted to be employed in these five businesses . . . will be more than 200”.
Joseph said the projection is for the industry to contribute at least ten per cent to economic output in the next five to ten years.
He said the Antiguan government intends to have local content and local ownership in every enterprise established in the cannabis industry.
Antigua’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne said he had always maintained that the first cannabis licence to be granted in the country had to include the members of the Rastafarian community.
