The U.S. Virgin Islands is poised to change into the most recent U.S. area to legalize adult-use hashish after senators handed a complete hashish reforms invoice and despatched the measure to Gov. Albert Bryan (D), who is predicted to signal the reforms into regulation, the Virgin Islands Consortium reviews. As soon as absolutely applied, the reforms would permit residents and guests to buy medical and/or leisure hashish merchandise from licensed dispensaries.
Lawmakers, who labored over the Christmas vacation to kind out issues with the legalization invoice, additionally permitted a proposal to robotically expunge hashish possession expenses within the territory, the report stated. The reforms had been proposed within the Senate by Sens. Janelle Sarauw (I) and Angel Bolques Jr. (D).
The territory handed medical hashish reforms 4 years in the past however officers have but to determine guidelines and laws for this system, leaving sufferers and suppliers caught in a multi-year limbo with no authorized path to medical hashish entry. Division of Licensing and Client Affairs Commissioner Richard Evangelista stated within the report it should probably be one other 18-24 months earlier than the federal government can rise up this system.
Sarauw stated that even now, with adult-use reforms now heading to the governor’s desk, “we’ve accomplished completely nothing to maneuver hashish ahead.”
“Guidelines and regs haven’t been promulgated, no seed-to-sale system, nothing has moved with this trade. So don’t ask for one thing and it come, and also you don’t transfer on it. We’ve acquired to get the ball transferring and put your cash the place your mouth is.” — Sarauw, by way of the Consortium
The possession of as much as an oz of hashish is presently decriminalized within the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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