Zimbabwe’s high hopes for Cannabis crops
Zimbabwe has legalised the cultivation of Cannabis for medicinal use and export.
Zimbabwe has legalised the cultivation of Cannabis for medicinal use and export.
It was post and delete for finance minister Tito Mboweni who revealed to his Twitter followers that he is actually a smoker of the now legal green stuff.
Dagga grows prolifically across South Africa – a point that hasn’t gone unnoticed by astute business players elsewhere who are hoping to cash in on the world’s new gold rush.
With our economic situation hitting the rural poor the hardest, thinking humanely outside the box is long overdue.
Judging by his tweets this week, finance minister Tito Mboweni regards dagga’s commercial exploitation as an answer to his tax collection woes.
In a jovial manner Finance Minister Tito Mboweni tweeted over the weekend that ‘legalising this thing (cannabis) = more tax revenue.’
Two senior ex-managers at Eskom and a number of other suspects have been arrested over allegations of fraud, corruption and money laundering at the Kusile power plant.
Dagga is taking off as a major agricultural sector as its medicinal benefits are being identified and commercialised in Canada and elsewhere.