RJRGLEANER Town Hall Meeting | Health ministry regulates cannabis products, not growth of the plant
Published:Thursday | November 1, 2018 | 12:00 AM
The Ministry of Health has clarified that it regulates cannabis products, and not the actual growing of the plant.
Chief Medical Officer in the Ministry of Health, Jacqueline Bisasor-McKenzie, said the ministry's concern lay with products that “work the way they say they do and work all the time”.
She also mentioned that the ministry takes interest in how the herb is used.
Bisasor-McKenzie was speaking at the RJRGLEANER Town Hall Meeting at the Jamaica College auditorium in St Andrew on Thursday evening.
The Ministry of Health is advising the public against the use of unregistered cannabis products for medical and therapeutic purposes.
The Ministry of Health recommends that medical cannabis products have a maximum tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content of five per cent, and is concerned about the potential negative public health effects that may arise from the use of unregistered cannabis products for which the THC content is unknown.
THC is the main mind-altering ingredient found in the cannabis plant.
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