MALAWI is ready to start commercial production and processing of cannabis for medicinal and industrial use, the southern African country's new Cannabis Regulatory Authority has announced. Malawi's parliament passed a bill in February that makes it legal to cultivate and process cannabis for medicines and hemp fibre used in industry, but stops short of decriminalising recreational use. A growing number of countries around the world are either legalising or relaxing laws on cannabis as attitudes towards the drug change. They include several in southern Africa, including Zambia, Lesotho and Zimbabwe. The board chair of Malawi's regulator, Boniface Kadzamira, said his…