La légalisation du cannabis au Canada pourrait porter atteinte aux petits cultivateurs des pays moins riches

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La légalisation du cannabis au Canada pourrait porter atteinte aux petits cultivateurs des pays moins riches

5 novembre 2018

Sans coordination internationale formelle et avec le rôle croissant des sociétés à but lucratif dans le marché légal, la régulation risque de laisser de côté les petits cultivateurs. Pour en savoir plus, en anglais, veuillez lire les informations ci-dessous.

By Hilary Clarke, CNN

For decades poor farmers in countries like Jamaica and Morocco have risked the wrath of governments and gangsters to grow cannabis as a cash crop.

But as Canada becomes the first country in the Group of Seven leading industrial nations to fully legalize marijuana, those countries where the crop has traditionally been grown risk losing out on new legal markets worth billions of dollars.When people think of cannabis production in developing countries, they tend to picture drug cartels and bandits.The truth, says Martin Jelsma of the Transnational Institute (TNI), a Dutch drug-policy research organization, is that most growers are poor farmers, often women, who cultivate marijuana on small holdings in the hills and mountains.