The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security has been called to speed up the implementation of the Cannabis Regulation Act, as the Ministry has not yet gazetted the law and come up with regulations to ensure that the law is operational.

Earlier this year, Parliament passed the law to regulate research, cultivation, production, processing, possession, storage, exportation, sale, distribution and use of cannabis and its products for medicinal, industrial or scientific purposes under prescribed conditions. 6 Months later, the government has not yet put in place measures to enact the law. An industrial hemp firm known as Invegrow Malawi Limited, conducted research which showed that the crop can perform well in Malawi once the Act is implemented.

The agro-ministry’s spokesperson Priscilla Mateyu told The Nation newspaper that the ministry is working on developing guidelines and regulations to facilitate the implementation of the law.