By December, close to 30 medical cannabis licences are set to be issued by authorities here, resulting in several marijuana farms and other businesses starting operations next year.Word of this has come from Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados Medicinal Cannabis Licensing Authority (BMCLA), Senator Shanika Roberts-Odle who said that so far this year, two licensees have been issued with nine licences spanning all categories of operation within the industry.While she did not indicate what areas the new licences would be approved for, Roberts-Odle hinted that cultivation would be among them.