Zimbabwe announced a plan to legalize hemp and export hemp-based products to the global market.
Per Business Day
Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa said the country is looking to make cannabis exports a top foreign currency earner and compete with tobacco, which is the country’s largest export earner outside mining.
The crop can be a good substitute to the leading export crop tobacco, which is currently facing possibilities of being banned internationally due to its adverse effects on health,” she said.
The country is facing a severe foreign currency crunch that has led to shortages of fuel, medicines and basics, such as bread.
She said the focus will be on hemp, which comes from the same plant family as marijuana, but has almost none of the psychoactive substance found in marijuana.