It will cost one some $50 000 to acquire the licence to cultivate Cannabis in Zimbabwe after the country issued new regulations to monitor the activities of farmers wishing to enter into the business of growing Cannabis.
Growers will also be required to pay an annual return fee of $15,000 while an application to renew a producer’s licence will cost $20,000.
A licence to also conduct research on cannabis has been set at $5,000 while an application for renewal of a licence to conduct research on cannabis will cost $2,500.
If one wants an application for variation or amendment of a licence, that would also cost $2,500 and an application for import or export licence will cost $5,000 and if you want an inspection licence you have to pay $2 500.
Zimbabwe last Friday officially legalized the cultivation of cannabis with the country’s Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa in a Government Gazette saying that the licensing regime is to allow for the “Production of Cannabis for Medicinal and Scientific Use Regulations.”
The licensing regime regulation reads that “An application for the issue of a licence in terms of section 27 of the Act shall be made to the Minister, in duplicate and shall be accompanied by the appropriate fee and three copies of a plan of the site proposed to be licensed which shall comply with the requirement specified in these regulations.”
“In case of an individual, proof of citizenship or proof of being ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe or proof of an exemption by the Minister (will be required),” the regulation reads.
The producer licence will be valid for five years and may be renewed thereafter before it expires.
Zimbabwe had previously outlawed the production and use of marijuana and possession of the drug had attracted sentences of up to 12 years in jail.
Lesotho in 2017 granted its first licences for marijuana production, it was the first African country to do so.
Source: Africafeeds.com
