Harvard professor to address Westmoreland Ganja Farmers

WESTERN BUREAU:

Chairman of the Westmoreland Hemp and Ganja Farmers' Association (WHGFA), Ras Iyah-V, says the organisation has been attracting widespread positive responses from local and international pro-ganja supporters since the organisation was launched one month ago.

"The feedback has been great - great media-wise and great in terms of the responses coming from not just the Rastafari community, but other people," Iyah-V told Western Focus in an interview on Wednesday. "We haven't got any governmental feedback, and that is part of the Jamaican people's overall concern. Everybody I have spoken to says they like the move because the Government is taking too long (to legalise) and we have the best herb here.

"People are concerned that we have a product that can be utilised, and yet the Jamaican Government is dragging its feet. That is the basic response that I get from people all over. In other parishes, people...

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