Andorra la VellaTowards the end of the year or the beginning of 2025, the Government hopes to have finalized the draft that should allow the formula for the “inclusion of the primary sector in the cannabis industry” to go ahead. It is a work that has been carried out in collaboration with the Farmers and Cattlemen’s Association and that will subsequently have to be worked on “internally” in the Government and that will also be shared with the parliamentary groups. This was explained by the Minister of Environment, Agriculture and Livestock, Guillem Casal, who reiterated that this is an issue that requires “so specific legislation” that the “more shared” it can be, in order to incorporate the different “opinions”, will be important to be able to have “a better text”.
Casal remarked that this issue of regulating the cultivation of cannabis was already part of the Democrats’ electoral program and also recalled the work that was already done in the last legislature, with the aim of diversifying the primary sector. Thus he recalled that in the framework of this diversification, one of the different options analyzed is precisely that of moving forward an industry linked to cannabis, but he stressed that it is a complex issue because it is necessary to “guarantee very well the traceability” of the product and, therefore, it involves transversally different ministries. He recalled that there was already a draft that has been resumed in this legislature and that work has continued to try to “find a fit for the sector in this new cannabis industry” and he has stressed that “a differential point” with respect to ‘other legislative proposals is joint work with the sector.