By SANFROSSA MANYINDAZAMBIA would have made about US$220 billion in revenue between 2014 and now, had the country implemented the cannabis policy we have been talking about, the Zambian Hemp Growers and Industries Association (Zam Hemp) has said.Zam Hemp president, Peter Sinkamba said this was supposed to be the total revenue for the country in the cultivation and exportation of cannabis for medicinal purposes.He said with this kind of revenue, the country would have cleared the huge debt that was hindering economic growth.Mr Sinkamba, who the Green Party president said the quick implementation of the policy would have been seeing the country making about US$36 billion in a year.“Had the voters listened to us back then when we as the Green Party were campaigning, the country would have been in huge amounts of money right now.“We would have helped raise such an amount of money for the country because we came up with the idea […]
‘Zambia could have raised US$220bn in cannabis exports’
