Meeting re medical cannabis industry
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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Audley Shaw (2nd left), along with (from left) Minister of State in the Ministry, Hon. Floyd Green; Minister without Portfolio, Hon. J.C. Hutchinson; and Minister of Agriculture and Food Security (Barbados), Hon. Indar Weir, during a meeting at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices, on Tuesday, May 28, 2019. The meeting was to discuss matters relating to medical cannabis industry. Barbados is seeking to learn from and to collaborate with Jamaica on how to build the cannabis industry in their country.
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