Cannabis Regulatory Authority (CRA) says stakeholders in the cannabis industry will be allowed to grow two varieties of medicinal and industrial hemp. Board Chairperson for CRA, Boniface Kadzamira revealed that Friday in Lilongwe during a Press Conference at Golden Peacock Hotel on the Issuance of Licences and Permits to Cannabis Growing Organizations. He said these […]
Police in Nkhata Bay have arrested a Tanzanian national, Casim Mwakawanga, for allegedly being found in possession of two bags of Indian hemp weighing 50 kilograms. The suspect was arrested on Wednesday at Matete roadblock in the district. The arrest followed the tip from wells wishers. Confirming the development, Nkhata Bay district police spokesperson Kondwani […]
Officials at Malawi Cannabis Regulatory Authority are meeting over an uproar following the gazzeted cannabis license fees after parliament passed a bill in February that makes it legal to cultivate and process cannabis for medicines and hemp fibre used in industry, but stops short of decriminalising recreational use. The board chair of Malawi’s regulator, Boniface […]
The Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) officials on Sunday abandoned their core duty of revenue collection to give chase to a vehicle carrying Indian hemp. MRA spokesperson, Steve Kapoloma has confirmed the incident which happened in Blantyre where the MRA officials managed to intercept 146 bags of Indian Hemp following a speed chase of a 5-tonne […]
Malawi Police Service officers with directives from Mangochi District Magistrate Court on Tuesday burned to ashes Indian hemp (chamba) weighing over 300kg which was confiscated from various peddlers in the district since 2017. The exercise, which took nearly two hours, was overseen by both the court and the police staff led by Mangochi District Court […]
Three women in central region tobacco growing district of Kasungu have been arrested after they were allegedly found in possession of bags of Indian hemp, locally known as Chamba. Kasungu police spokesperson Harry Namwaza said the three were arrested on two different locations but on the same day,Tuesday. “Two were arrested around midnight hours at […]
In the recent past, the world has been bombarded with news on marijuana’s health and recreational benefits. This new information on the future weed smoker is difficult to absorb for many people for two reasons. The erroneous information we have consumed concerning marijuana up to now: – Weed has been criticized for ages and its […]
Malawi Police Service in Mangochi are keeping in custody Mario Makweche, 49 for allegedly possessing of 6 bags of Cannabis sativa, a narcotic herb commonly known as Chamba, contrary to Regulation 4 (a) as read with Section 19 of Dangerous Drugs Act. Mangochi Police Public Relations Officer, Inspector Rodrick Maida, confirmed Makweche’s arrest, saying the […]
International media has been reporting that medical doctors have warned smoking marijuana even just occasionally could increase y risk of suffering complications from the novel coronavirus. The virus causes Covid-19, a respiratory disease that can progress from mild illness to viral pneumonia and organ failure. Doctors say cannabis leads to inflammation in the lungs, which […]
Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development Kondwani Nankhumwa hopes the new legislation decriminalising cannabis for medicinal and industrial purposes will help in economic diversification and an alternative cash crop to tobacco. The economic potential of the fast-growing global medicinal and industrial cannabis industry has been the main driver of the law change in Malawi. Nankhumwa tabled […]
Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development Kondwani Nankhumwa has said government through the Agriculture Extension Services department would embark in a civic education campaign to sensitise the masses the difference between the legalised industrial hemp and the illegal Indian Hemp for recreation commonly known among Malawians as Chamba. Nankhumwa, who tabled the Cannabis Regulation Bill, legalising the growing […]
Malawi’s legislators have passed a bill to legalize cannabis, the plant that produces hemp and marijuana for medical use, as the country looks to reduce its reliance on tobacco. Parliament on Thursday afternoon passed the Cannabis Regulation Bill which seeks to distinguish the criminalised Indian hemp (chamba) from medicinal cannabis through cultivation, production, possession and […]
Malawi Police in Salima District have arrested, Chingeni Kadam’manja, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) youth cadet, for allegedly being found in possession of 61 sack bags and 45 plastic bags of Indian hemp locally known as chamba. Kadam’manja, who is also Nyasa Big Bullets FC supporters committee treasurer, is not a first offender in possession […]
A nineteen-year old man in the northern region administrative capital Mzuzu has been nabbed by police, and is currently in custody for allegedly “growing” and “selling” Indian hemp, which is illegal under Malawian laws. Hastings Phiri was arrested Sunday in Luwinga, Mzuzu’s industrial location, after residents reported him the police. Northern region police deputy publicist, […]
Malawi police in the central region tobacco growing district of Kasungu on Monday destroyed by burning 107 bags of Indian hemp (chamba) belonging to Saljid Sultan Daud in an operation that took place at Chiwengo dumping site. The Indian Hemp in 77 bags of 90 kilograms and 30 bags of 50 kilograms had some which belonged […]
While Malawi is still contemplating on legalizing the growing of Indian hemp (marijuana) for industrial use, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has said it will move ahead with their long-delayed expansion of its research program on the illegal hemp. A report by Reuters says this could be a sign that the President Donald Trump […]
A Malawian former student nurse Arthur Liwembe, 33, has been hitting headlines in Ireland press after he took a bag of the Marijuana drug to a Police [garda] station of his own accord to complain that it was “not of good quality”. Liwembe, with an address at an asylum-seekers’ reception centre, was immediately arrested. When […]
Malawi Police Service at Kanengo Station in Lilongwe on Wednesday arrested a truck driver for allegedly being found in possession of 38 bags of cannabis sativa, locally known as Chamba, without license. Confirming the arrest on Thursday, Central Region Police spokesperson Nolliettie Chimala said they received a tip from well-wishers that the driver, Willard Kaoloka, […]