Episode 124: Karma Koala Podcast 331: Same Francis, the Caribbean - new report, "From the Code Noir to GACP/GMP: Cannabis and the New Colonial Economy"
I spoke to Same last year about the policy work he is doing with multiple jurisdictions in the Caribbean.
He has now published the report
"From the Code Noir to GACP/GMP: Cannabis and the New Colonial Economy"
The Caribbean is dismantling prohibition. The harder task is ensuring that legal cannabis does not reproduce an older economic order in which the South grows the commodity while standards, capital, certification and value are controlled elsewhere.
In May 2026, France's National Assembly adopted at first reading a bill providing for the repeal of the Code Noir, the 1685 edict that helped…
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