By Reuters on January 26, 2023

Argentina on Wednesday launched the first working group of a new national agency to regularize and promote the country’s nascent cannabis industry, which ministers hope will create new jobs and exports generating fresh income for the South American nation.

“This opens the door for Argentina to start a new path in terms of industrial exports, on the basis of huge global demand,” said Economy Minister Sergio Massa in a conference launching the national hemp and cannabis agency, ARICCAME.

“All this needs to be transformed into an industry which generates work, which generates exports for Argentina and which generates value.”

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