JSE-listed investment group Labat Africa is venturing into the booming cannibis industry after securing a trading licence in Lesotho and also purchasing two local companies that operate in that sector.
It also announced the appointment of Mike Stringer as CEO of its new Labat Cannibis SA division. Stringer has worked on the regulation component of the cannabis industry for the past decade. “He was key in developing the USA and EU markets together with highly competent agents,” the company said. Lesotho was the first African country to decriminalise cannabis. Others, including Botswana, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Uganda, are at varying stages of rolling out their licensing regimes to attract investment. SA is the laggard, analysts say.allows it “to grow, cultivate, manufacture, supply, hold, import, export and transit cannabis”.
Labat Africa CEO Brian van Rooyen says the group will use the Pac-con site in Durban to extract complementary medicines from industrial hemp and cannabis.evelopment and extraction for a variety of medical ailments”.“Labat will provide a gateway to a number of investors …providing the opportunity to invest in the cannabis market in the Southern African industry on a public platform.”for small-scale farmers, allowing them to penetrate the industrial component of the cannabis business.
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