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Cannabis farms are multiplying, ready for the “green gold” rush

2024-01-30T18:49:02.078Z

Highlights: Cannabis farms are multiplying, ready for the ‘green gold’ rush. Cultivation for medical use will soon be authorized in France. One more string to the bow of the hemp industry, already the leading producer in Europe of this plant that once proliferated in our countryside. In Anglet (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) Brahim Sebart, founder of PGP Farmer, recognizes that it was not a given. But today the first obstacles have been removed.


DECRYPTION - Cultivation for medical use will soon be authorized in France. One more string to the bow of the hemp industry, already the leading producer in Europe of this plant that once proliferated in our countryside.


In Anglet (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)

Brahim Sebart, founder of PGP Farmer, recognizes that it was not a given.

But today the first obstacles have been removed: “

I have obtained approval from all the local authorities for my

medical cannabis production project

», enthuses this ex-financier who returned to his native Périgord (Dordogne) to “

create jobs and contribute to the creation of a French sector

”.

So this epileptic patient plans to invest - with his partner and head of culture, Quentin di Constanzo, who trained in California - several tens of millions of euros in the hope of obtaining one of the authorizations for the cultivation of therapeutic cannabis granted by the National Medicines Safety Authority (ANSM) in the coming months.

Among the hundred active ingredients of

cannabis sativa

, the Latin name for hemp, the best known are cannabidiol (CBD) and THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) which are extracted from the flowers.

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Source: lefigaro

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