Jamaica: My ganja teach-in

Weed farmers at Hotbox Jamaica's Ganja School want to know how to grow quality exports for Canada's medpot market, but Health Canada seems freaked out by the idea

Parishes in Jamaica are getting in on medpot growing - they've set up local pot growers' associations promoting farmers role as shareholders, not sharecroppers.

St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica - Jamaican ganja farmers have been using the same methods of producing marijuana for generations, but the modern weed world seems to have passed them by.

This was obvious to me as I clambered up a mountainside weed farm on the island recently to learn how much toil goes into producing acres of outdoor pot. Farmers seem to be simply sowing seed and hoping for the best; some of the plants were shrivelling and dying, clearly unable to flourish in a tropical climate, while others thrived.

Abi Roach, owner of Kensington Market pot spot...

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