Investigations, analysis and dispatches from Fiji's cannabis reform movement.
Australia is spending A$20 million on a UN climate pre-summit in Fiji. Meanwhile the industrial hemp industry Fiji legally enabled in 2022 still has not been rolled out.
Fiji is at a crossroads. A medicinal cannabis industry is being built. But the deeper question is what kind of cannabis future the country wants — and who it is for.
Pacific leaders are right to push for stronger climate action. But Fiji already has a major climate opportunity sitting on a shelf: industrial hemp legislation.
Fiji’s medicinal cannabis consultation and the Cannabis Fiji petition are asking different questions. One measures support for an industry. The other asks what kind of cannabis reform Fiji should become.
A major national development project raised questions about consultation, environmental accountability and transparency. This investigation asks why established environmental voices were not publicly visible during the debate.
The Fiji Police Force carried out its duty under current law. But the seizure of nearly 8,000 suspected cannabis plants also exposes the policy crossroads between prohibition and regulation.
A new petition calls on the Government of Fiji to pause data-centre approvals until environmental, legal, and constitutional obligations are met through transparent, independent, and evidence-based process.
As the United States scrutinises Dr. Anthony Fauci's role in the COVID-19 response, Fiji has yet to undertake a comparable, independent examination of its own pandemic decision-making. Cannabis Fiji is launching an evidence-based series to follow the facts wherever they lead.
You cannot speak the language of reform with one hand and the language of erasure with the other. Fiji must stop destroying what it has not yet learned to govern.
Fiji's cannabis debate is about more than one plant. It is about proportionality, evidence, and the kind of democracy we want to be.
Google's FJ$200 million Fiji project has been framed as a digital and economic win — but the public has not been shown the facility's cooling design or water budget. In a country already facing supply shocks, that silence deserves scrutiny.
A recent National Geographic feature marks a shift in the global conversation — cannabis understood through rigorous research, not assumption. Cannabis Fiji welcomes the evidence-led approach.
