OPPOSITION Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar said a future UNC government would promote the cultivation of marijuana for medical use but not for recreational purposes.

Addressing a UNC rally on April 19 at Las Lomas in the constituency of La Horquetta/Talparo, she promised state help towards the cultivation of marijuana by way of incentives and quality control, among other measures.

On April 17 at a town meeting at Hillview College in the constituency of Tunapuna, she had warned of the dangers of the abuse of recreational marijuana, which she said the government decriminalised but without providing requisite controls.