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Shaw receives hemp concrete block at Medical Cannabis Integration Symposium

Published:Thursday | July 12, 2018 | 12:00 AM
Dr Janet Campbell-Shelly, dean, College of Health Sciences, University of Technology (UTech), gifts Audley Shaw, minister of industry, commerce, agriculture and fisheries, with a sample of a concrete block made from hemp by UTech engineering students. The presentation was made following Shaw’s address at the third Jamaican Medical Cannabis Integration Symposium staged by UTech from July 5-6 at its Papine campus. The two-day symposium, held under the theme ‘Merging Science, Spirit and Business’, showcased advances that have been made in the Jamaican and international medical cannabis sector.