Green Party pushes for medicinal marijuana cultivation
By MUKOSELA KASALWE THE Commonwealth has appointed Nigerian scholar and diplomat Professor Ibrahim Gambari as dialogue envoy between President Edgar Lungu and UPND leader, Hakainde Hichilema, says Secretary General, Patricia Scotland.
Ms Scotland said she was happy that Prof Gambari had accepted to be the Commonwealth Dialogue Envoy for Zambia and that the organisation would ensure that the Nigerian diplomat could travel to Zambia at the earliest possible time to start consultations with all stakeholders on By KELVIN SIABANA the roadmap and other modalities THE Green Party has applied for the process. judicial review in the Kit
She said the Commonwealth, we High Court challenging the church, civil society, political the decision of the Minister of parties, and all other stakeholders Health to refuse to grant the would work towards ensuring opposition party a licence to that dialogue outcomes ar6e im8ple-6import, export, and cultivate mented in good time for the 2021 cannabis for medicinal purposes. elections.
In a press statement availed According to a court document to the Daily Nation yesterday, obtained by the Daily Nacommunications officer Natricia tion in Kitwe, the Green Party Duncan said the Commonwealth argues that the refusal by the
minister, Dr. Chitalu Chilufya,
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