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What Is Holding Back Zimbabwe’s Hemp Industry?

Hazel Norman — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 21:28:39 +0000

Humans harnessing hemp is far from being a new thing. Hemp fiber was used as far back as 10,000 years ago during the Early Jomon Period in Japan. Consumption for medical purposes goes back at least as far as back as 2,800 BC. Cannabis was included in Emperor Shen Nung’s (regarded as the father of […]

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Zimbabwe Tobacco Farmers Get More Incentive To Switch To Hemp

Johnny Green — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 02:32:44 +0000

Historically, Zimbabwe has served as the top producer of tobacco on the African continent, although in recent years many tobacco farmers in Zimbabwe have transitioned to cultivating hemp due to lowering global demand for tobacco. Zimbabwe’s government more than tripled the amount of allowable THC in hemp this month, and that should further motivate farmers […]

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Zimbabwe Continues Shift From Tobacco To Cannabis

Johnny Green — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:28:30 +0000

Cannabis reform is spreading across the African continent, albeit in a slower fashion compared to most other continents. Many countries in Africa are at least exploring medical cannabis reform. In the case of South Africa, adult-use legalization appears to be on the way soon. African nations have historically taken a harsh stance against cannabis, treating […]

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Zimbabwe Announces Rules For Cultivating Cannabis

Johnny Green — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 15:32:48 +0000

The legal cannabis industry is emerging all over the planet right now, and that includes spreading across the African continent. An increasing number of countries in Africa are getting on the right side of history and allowing the legal cannabis industry to operate. One of those countries is Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe may not be the first […]

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Zimbabwe Flips Cannabis Policy To Create Total Privatization Of The Market

Marguerite Arnold — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 15:57:55 +0000

As South African lawmakers miss a deadline to change the law, finally enshrining cultivation, possession and consumption as a constitutional right (set by the Constitutional Court in 2018), neighbouring Zimbabwe has moved forward on a new course of its own. Namely, full privatization of the industry. In an abrupt turn of events, the country’s Health […]

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Zimbabwe Makes History With Planting Of First Legal Hemp Crop

Johnny Green — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 02:50:44 +0000

Zimbabwe may not be the first place that people think of when they think of hemp, however, the African nation made history this month when it planted its first crop of hemp. Zimbabwe legalized the production of hemp last year for medical and scientific purposes and legalized hemp for industrial purposes in September of this […]

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