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Hemp 🇬🇾 Guyana

Guyana creates licences for industrial hemp cultivation and manufacture

Guyana’s new law provided cultivation, manufacturing and research licences for hemp containing no more than 0.3% delta-9 THC on a dry-weight basis.[1] Parliament had passed it on 8 August, and the Act was published in the Official Gazette on 11 August.[1] The agriculture minister described the crop as part of the effort to diversify agriculture and create processing businesses.[2]

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References

  1. Guyana — Industrial Hemp Act No. 13 of 2022Sections 2, 12 and 39; Gazette 11 August 2022; passed 8 August 2022
  2. Guyana Ministry of Agriculture — second reading of the Industrial Hemp Bill, 9 August 2022

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