Renown Jamaican scientist Dr Henry Lowe is waiting on the approval of a patent that could be a treatment for COVID19. He has many approved Cannabis Patents and are waiting on approval for many others. He created product from Cannabis from the early 70's and his works are well recognized all over the World.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20200406/lowe-eyeing-coronavirus-ganja-patent
Marlon Asher telling about the struggles of Ganja Farmers in the Caribbean the tune below
Because Ganja was totally illegal Dr. Lowe said he had was to import cannabis to make the drug most of the time.
Since 2015 government has decriminalized Cannabis. Rastafari Community who have been campaigning for decades for its legalization for their usage as a sacrament and recreation was able to get their sacramental usage into law. However regulation is still somewhat burdensome as only two onces can be move with on or in the public. Hence taking sacrament to church that are more than two onces can get you arrested.
Nevertheless Expectation are very high for a big Cannabis industry.here. It is also expected that the grassroot people and in particular rastas who have been brutalized, imprisoned and ridicule will benefit.
Picture feature of one of the main advocate and former minister of goverment at a Rastafari Rootzfest in Negril. Another ganja festival and one that have been for for more than fifteen years lead by the Connell family is call Steping High 
Last year a minister of the current government and the current mayor of Sav-La-Mar a long with the owner seen in the pic below opening the first ganja clinic in the Caribbean said to be federally approved in the USA.
https://www.magzter.com/article/Health/Edibles-Magazine/Docs-Place-Jamaicas-First-Federally-Licensed-Medical-Cannabis-Wellness-Center-Resort-Celebrates-Grand-Opening-in-Negril
COVID19 put spokes into the effort to move the Cannabis industry forward. Finding a cure for it would be the fillip the industry needs at this time.