Facing stiff competition, will Colombia's marijuana industry go up in smoke?


  • World
  • Monday, 07 Oct 2019

FILE PHOTO: A man smoking marijuana through a mask during a Global March for marijuana in Bogota, Colombia, May 5, 2018. REUTERS/Jaime Saldarriaga

PESCA, Colombia (Reuters) - A intense scent hangs in the air at the 15-hectare La Chacra medicinal cannabis farm in central Colombia, where marijuana plants blossom in the warm closeness of its huge, heavily-secured greenhouse.

It is one of the world's biggest crops, but the farm, run by cannabis company Clever Leaves, has only managed to export a few marijuana derivatives because of the tight regulations threatening to choke Colombia's ganja industry.

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