Malta Enterprise approves large site for cannabis farming in south

In a significant policy change, the government has decided to allow large-scale cultivation of cannabis plants, including the selling of flowers (buds), the Times of Malta has learnt. Prime Minister Joseph Muscat had declared in Parliament that “only small-batch cultivation for research purposes” would be allowed. However, in a public announcement, an Australian company setting up shop in Malta, MGC Pharma, declared it had been awarded a 4,000 square metre site by the government to build and operate a cultivation and medical cannabis facility. “The contract [with Malta Enterprise] provides MGC with an attractive new cultivation site in the EU, completing the board’s strategy to operate a fully-vertically-integrated medical cannabis operation in Europe,” company co-founder and chief executive officer Roby Zomer said. Read: Malta Enterprise approves five medical cannabis investments He said that, apart from cultivating the raw plant, “the contract [with the government] allowed the company to also sell medical cannabis flowers in the region, including Germany. The Times of Malta sought to find out where the new facility and cultivation fields would be situated but questions sent to...