Jamaica: Key Stakeholders Discuss Building a Cannabis Industry

Saturday’s Panel at the Conference on Jamaica’s Cannabis Reform. From left to right: Professor Winston Davidson, Chairman of the Bureau of Standards, the Honorable G Anthony Hylton, Minister of Industry, Investment & Commerce, Amanda Feilding, Countess of Wemyss and Director of the Beckley Foundation, Dr. Andre Gordon, Chairman of the Cannabis Licensing Authority, and Diane Edwards, President of JAMPRO

This weekend in Negril the Beckley Foundation brought together leaders from the Jamaican government, the Rastafari community, and the business community to discuss the current progress and next steps for building a regulatory framework for a legal cannabis industry in Jamaica.

The two day event was hosted by the Beckley Foundation, which was started in England in 1998 by the Countess of Wemyss, to pioneer cannabis research and policy reform. Her contribution to psychedelic science and global drug policy reform has been pivotal and widely acknowledged.

On Friday Amanda Feilding spoke...

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