A petition to change the law which classifies hemp as an illegal substance was presented to the National Assembly last Thursday.
The document, presented to the Clerk of the National Assembly Sherlock Isaacs by the Guyana Hemp Association, was titled “The correction of the conflict of laws between the United Nations and local Guyanese law, specifically the inclusion of industrial hemp in the narcotics drugs and psychotropic substances control act of 1988.”
Jinnah Rahman, Secretary and Press Officer of the Guyana Hemp Association, explained that