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UWI knocked for bid to grow ganja

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TRY GROWING LOCAL food crops instead of marijuana.

This was the advice of chief executive officer of the Barbados Agricultural Society, James Paul, to the University of the West Indies, in the wake of a request from a senior administrator there for the laws to be changed to allow the Cave Hill Campus to grow marijuana on farmland in St John.

Paul was speaking after a Star Chick rebranding launch at the Radisson Aquatica yesterday.

Pro Vice Chancellor at Cave Hill, Professor Alan Cobley, recently told a marijuana symposium that a change in the current legislation would be part of the “supporting environment” to allow research into any medicinal properties of the illegal drug. (HLE)

Please read the full story in today’s Midweek Nation, or in the eNATION edition.

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