Page 71 - DaggaBay Magazine Issue 4
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Earlier this year, South African His organisation helps SA cultivators,
companies got licences to supply manufacturers, processing and
medicinal weed to the export distributors to become fully compliant
market and ready for a medical cannabis
It involves the producers in the licence.
cultivation, drying, and packaging Apart from getting your facility
of weed, and extracting cannabis approved, you also need to submit a
oil. quality-control procedure, which have to
The estimated cost of setting up a include:
facility and preparing an - Recruitment forms for job applications
application will cost you R3 - Document management system
million to R5 million, according to - Legal compliance system
Landbouweekblad. - Details on how the cannabis is being
Before you apply, you should have cultivated
a contract in place with an - Manufacturing standards
overseas buyer of the product. - Systems for handling the dagga
Preparing your application How much can you grow?
If you want to export cannabis for There is no limit currently on how much
medicinal use, apply with the cannabis you can grow, according to
Medicine Control Council of SA Landbouweekblad.
(MCC). As part of the application process, they
The MCC will inspect the plans for will allow you a permitted quantity -
your facility, including your determined by the contract you have in
security measures and the place with a foreigner buyer, and the
positioning of your tunnels, says size of your facility.
Nico Kriek, managing director at
the Cannabis Compliance Bureau.
