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The Governor General Sir Rodney Williams at the Throne Speech today announced that the government will, \u201cbe granting a few licenses to specially selected farmers to grow cannabis for medicinal purposes.\u201d<\/p>

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The Governor General did not, however, indicate the number of farmers who will be selected, the process by which they will be selected nor the scale of the proposed upcoming joint-venture.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe plants will be grown, harvested and processed,\u201d he continued, \u201cfor the exclusive purpose of turning the vegetation into medicines that will be sold here in Antigua and Barbuda only\u2014for domestic use by residents and visitors.\u201d<\/p>

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Sir Rodney went onto say that there is no intention at this time for there to be any exportation of the \u201ccannabis medicines\u201d produced here.<\/p>

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The medicines will be produced by laboratories that are specially licensed and controlled, and their products tested for standards to which they must conform.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe economic benefit to our trained pharmacists, chemists, plant scientists and others involved in the process can only be beneficial to our citizenry,\u201d he said.<\/p>

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