Jamaican Cannabis Spas Are Coming!

Even the Jamaican ganja dealers are going legit.

Long a cannabis-friendly vacation destination — even if the commerce patronized was, technically, illegal — the birthplace of Bob Marley is laying plans to create a legal, government-sanctioned “health and wellness tourism” economy.

And that includes Jamaican-grown cannabis.

During remarks given at Canex Jamaica — the island’s very own cannabis business conference — Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett said he believes Jamaica’s southwestern coast is the ideal place to draw tourists more interested in being healthy than swilling tequila on the beach in Cabo.

And cannabis would “play a major part” in such a tourism draw, reports state.

Barlett is looking for ways to grow the island’s annual visitors from four million this year to five million by 2021.

And cannabis — legally purchase heirloom strains of the kind enjoyed by the reggae stars who have made Jamaican culture known...

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