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For 2 and a half years, Edi Rama has not allowed the issuance of licenses to legal growers, but in the meantime he allows the import of seeds and the planting of plots by criminal groups linked to him...
Prime Minister Edi Rama is applying two standards to Law No. 61, dated July 21, 2023, which allows the cultivation of cannabis for industrial processing needs and medical use.
Immediately after the approval of the law, the prime minister issued the bylaws for the creation of the Cannabis Agency, the Licensing Commission for companies that want to cultivate it, also defining 136 cultivation zones and areas, while he has not been issuing licenses for 2 and a half years.
But in the name of implementing this law, the importation of cannabis seeds is being allowed, while the Ministry of Health, as the authorized department, and the Council of Ministers are not issuing the bylaws for the commencement of cultivation.
Confidential information from the Customs Directorate has informed "Pamphlet" that companies importing seeds for cereals and seeds for vegetables are also importing cannabis seeds from the Netherlands, Spain, Macedonia and Romania.
The importation of cannabis seeds is not being done illegally through a smuggling and bribery scheme, but with permission from the government, using Law No. 61, dated July 21, 2023, as a mask, although the government has not issued the bylaws for its implementation.
According to the legal definition, seeds are allowed to be imported after the companies that will develop the cannabis cultivation activity in Albania have been licensed, and must be imported only by those companies, as a measure to limit illegal cultivation.
But customs chiefs have ordered customs services at border points to allow the import of quantities of cannabis seeds into Albania, even bypassing the National Food Authority, as the service that deals with seed control.
According to information, Customs is allowing the import of cannabis seeds, at the request of the Minister of Health and Social Affairs, Evis Sala, who is responsible for the National Cannabis Agency, although the law stipulates that cannabis seeds are imported only from companies licensed for cultivation.
But the government has not issued licenses for cannabis cultivation; therefore, the import of seeds cannot be requested and cannot be allowed; a fact that raises 3 questions:
- Who imports these cannabis seeds and to whom do they sell them, while licenses have not been issued in Albania and legal cultivation has not begun?
- Are criminal groups and illegal cannabis growers obtaining and using the seeds?
- Is there a connection to the drug plots planted by individuals and criminal groups connected to the power structure; the fact that Prime Minister Edi Rama, for 2 and a half years, has not allowed the issuance of licenses for legal growers?
Even before the adoption of the law allowing cannabis cultivation, seeds were smuggled in, permitted by the government and police, while now they are being imported using the guise of the law, even though the prime minister has blocked the granting of licenses./ Pamphlet
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