Crescencio Pacalso, has said his province would benefit from a medical marijuana law because it had the right climate to grow the weed. ADVERTISEMENTPacalso added, however, that marijuana should be grown in designated farms that would not compete with Benguet’s salad vegetable areas. Police and soldiers routinely destroy marijuana farms at the boundaries of the provinces of Ilocos Sur, La Union, Benguet, Ifugao, Mountain Province and Kalinga. ADVERTISEMENT“It is a form of alternative medicine,” said Dr. Amelita Pangilinan, Cordillera director of the Department of Health (DOH). Some landowners, however, insist their properties were used to grow marijuana without their consent, according to Edgar Apalla, PDEA Cordillera director.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 19, 2018 21:33 UTC