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Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has un­veiled more of her par­ty’s plans to de­vel­op the lo­cal cannabis sec­tor, say­ing this will be among new ini­tia­tives her par­ty will use to stim­u­late rev­enue streams out­side of tra­di­tion­al in­dus­tries.

Speak­ing dur­ing a meet­ing at the Las Lo­mas #2 Recre­ation Grounds on Sat­ur­day night, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said in­vest­ing in the cul­ti­va­tion and ex­port of cannabis for recre­ation­al pur­pos­es could im­prove this coun­try’s earn­ing ca­pac­i­ty while cre­at­ing new em­ploy­ment op­por­tu­ni­ties at home.

Quot­ing fig­ures which sug­gest­ed that the glob­al cannabis mar­ket was pro­ject­ed to ex­ceed US$100 bil­lion by 2030, she said T&T should po­si­tion it­self to take ad­van­tage of such wide­spread de­mand and an­nounced a slew of in­cen­tives to help en­hance the growth of cannabis cul­ti­va­tion, while al­so reg­u­lar­is­ing the in­dus­try to en­sure com­pli­ance with in­ter­na­tion­al stan­dards.