Africana Cannabis Holding, a venture of Ethiopian and Canadian investors, proposed a farm and factory in Dembecha, in the Amhara region, to grow cannabis for medicine and export. When the local administration posted news of a meeting with residents, protests spread online. The health minister, Amir Aman, said growing cannabis for medical purposes had neither been recognised nor approved and that such requests had been and would be denied; the head of the Investment Commission said no permit to grow cannabis in Ethiopia would be issued.[1][2]
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