With the latest attacks on Ukraine from Russia, The Russian invasion, according to local activists, will ultimately destroy the local cannabis business.
The Ukrainian Association of Cannabis made a motion to the Parliament in 2019 to discuss medicinal marijuana legislation. According to a national poll conducted in 2020, 65 percent of the public supportded medical reform, and Ukraine has decriminalized growing up to 10 plants in-home.
“Given its ‘flower power’ past, no matter how corporate it has also become, this is also generally an industry made up of people who are pro-peace and diplomacy.
Delaying change because of supposedly more important and pressing issues will only exacerbate the difficulties patients have in obtaining the drug. And escalating the war will only increase a suffering that not even cannabis can solve,” says cannabis writer and activist, Marguerite Arnold, based in Germany.
With Ukraine’s fledgling cannabis industry being impacted by wartime conditions, do you believe Ukraine can regain its storied European canna-power once this conflict concludes? Let us know in the comments!
