{"id":94389,"date":"2025-12-17T19:16:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=94389"},"modified":"2025-12-17T19:16:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:16:49","slug":"kp-govt-to-legalize-cannabis-licensing-rules-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/kp-govt-to-legalize-cannabis-licensing-rules-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"KP govt to legalize cannabis, licensing rules announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has made considerable progress in the legalization of growing <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/kp-okays-cannabis-framework-for-medical-industrial-sectors\/\">cannabis<\/a> and hemp, with the province&#8217;s Cannabis Regulatory Sub-Committee announcing new guidelines on licensing and excise duties.<\/p>\n<p>The Sub-Committee, led by Abdul Haleem Khan, DG Excise, Taxation, and Narcotics Control, had a detailed meeting to finalize recommendations on licensing, growing, and processing for medicinal and industrial cannabis. The plan, according to government officials, is to bring about socio-economic development while providing adequate regulatory control.<\/p>\n<p>The committee suggested licenses and charges in varying categories of cultivation and the period of the license: Medicinal cannabis cultivation license for 5 acres at Rs. 0.6 million, Industrial hemp (&lt;0.3% THC) for 5 acres at Rs. 0.3 million, Cannabis processing license Rs. 1.5 million, Industrial hemp processing license Rs. 0.7 million, and Joint cultivation and processing license Rs. 2 million.<\/p>\n<p>It is also recommended by the Sub-Committee that excise duties be charged more in relation to the processing and finished products, rather than in relation to cultivation and transport.<\/p>\n<p>This has been viewed by professionals to create an opportunity for farmers and companies while placing KP on the map for medicinal and industrial marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Sub-Committee emphasized that these are a part of a stratified approach towards cannabis licensing from the legal standpoint of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has made considerable progress in the legalization of growing cannabis and hemp, with the province&#8217;s Cannabis Regulatory Sub-Committee announcing new guidelines on licensing and excise duties. The Sub-Committee, led by Abdul Haleem Khan, DG Excise, Taxation, and Narcotics Control, had a detailed meeting to finalize recommendations on licensing, growing, and processing for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":70460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[33083,21726],"class_list":["post-94389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-cannabis","tag-cannabis-bill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94390,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94389\/revisions\/94390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}