Zambia’s Green Party, which advocates for legalising the cultivation of marijuana, is buoyed by swelling support globally. Leader of the party Peter Sinkamba is currently pursuing a judicial review of an earlier court decision to deny him a license to cultivate marijuana for medicinal uses. This is encouraged by the…
Zambia’s Green Party is lobbying maize farmers to help legalise the cultivation of marijuana. “This year’s poor maize price merely goes to show that it’s a poor man’s crop,” party President Peter Sinkamba said in an interview with Africanfarming.com. The Food Reserve Agency (FRA) is buying maize at K60/50kg, much…
During the August elections, Zambia’s GREEN Party controversially campaigned for the legalisation of marijuana farming, as a cash crop, to boost Zambia’s much needed foreign exchange revenue. The elections are over, but the debate continues. “With a lot of arable land in Zambia, if government can legalise the farming of…
