The bill aims to improve the income of farmers and create promising and stable employment opportunities. It also seeks to subject all activities related to cultivation, production, processing, transportation, marketing, export and import of cannabis and its products to an authorization system.
In this regard, the text provides for the creation of a National Agency in charge of coordination between all government sectors, public institutions and national and international partners in order to develop an agricultural and industrial chain dealing with cannabis, while strengthening the control mechanisms.
It also paves the way for farmers to join agricultural cooperatives, with mandatory acceptance of crops by manufacturing and exporting companies, and to adopt sanctions against violators of the provisions of this law.
The House of Representatives had approved, last week, this bill elaborated in harmony with the Kingdom's international commitments.