Hurdles and handicaps on the road to mass cannabis farming
A worker picks up leaves from cannabis plants inside a greenhouse of Medigrow, a Lesotho-Canadian company that grows legal cannabis, located near Marakabei, in Lesotho on August 6, 2019. PHOTO | GUILLEM SARTORIO | AFP
It will be a while before Africa can adopt cannabis farming en mass because of regulatory, infrastructural and market handicaps.
Various industry analysts say getting legislators to approve cannabis growing by peasants is a major hurdle in the conservative African society where marijuana is associated with delinquency and depression.
