Taliban signs deal with Cpharm for ‘cannabis processing’, Australian company says ‘no idea’

An Australian medical service consultant rushes to clarify that it has been identified in a business agreement with the Taliban for marijuana processing plants in Afghanistan. Taliban spokesman for the Ministry of Home Affairs, Qari Saeed Khosty, previously claimed that the powerful Sunni Pashtun group had completed an agreement with Cpharm to prepare marijuana processing plants and work can begin in a few days.

In a series of tweets, Khosty said Taliban officials from the Ministry of Home Affairs’s contract-narcotics department met with representatives from a company called Cpharm who wanted to establish a marijuana processing plant in Afghanistan. The company needs 30 hectares of land to grow marijuana and is ready to invest $ 430 million in this project to make all marijuana products, he added.

“It should be mentioned that all stages of the contract with the company mentioned has been completed and this project will officially begin in the coming days,” Khosty tweeted.

The announcement of a surprise by a Taliban spokesman left a small company based in Maitland, CPHARM was dying with a request for comments. The company clarified that it has nothing to do with the agreement that appears with the Taliban, adding that it does not produce or supply any product and only provides medical advice to the Australian pharmaceutical industry.

“We have been aware of overnight many media articles that CPHARM in Australia has been involved in the agreement with the Taliban to be involved in the supply of marijuana in cream. We have been contacted today by many media outlets around the world about this,” Cpharma said in a. statement.

“We have no connection with marijuana or the Taliban. We don’t know where the release of the Taliban media originated and wanted to convince everyone that it should not be connected with Cpharm Pty Ltd. Australia,” the company added in a media advisory statement, “the company added.