Extend US Virgin Islands history and correct patient-growing profile

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+# US Virgin Islands history review — 24 October 2026
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+Nine new history entries, four revised entries and six new articles extend a history previously limited to five events and no articles. The profile is rewritten with inline citations, replacing Wikipedia/law-firm summaries with statutory material wherever retrieved. All current scores and status metadata are preserved. The historical 2014–2023 enforcement category is corrected from 4 to 2 because nonpayment of the supposedly fine-only civil ticket could itself bring imprisonment.
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+## Original documents and records read
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+Research material and scripts are retained in `tmp/history-usvi-gap-2026-10-24/`; temporary production builds are deleted after verification.
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+- **2016 Superior Court opinion, People v. Cannergeiter**, 65 V.I. 114, reproduced at HallApproved. Read facts, its account of the 2014 law, analysis and conclusion, especially printed pp. 124–125 and 134–136. Judge Robert Molloy decided the case on 29 September 2016. Defendant is **Victor**, not another given name. The stop occurred 30 December 2015. Officers later found about 140 g and a firearm; the opinion distinguishes witness testimony from findings. Its holding retains properly supported smell-based stops but suppresses the evidence here because the initial suspicion was insufficiently specific and the first officer’s training/experience was unproven. Suppression is not called an acquittal, and the later 2023 law is not retroactively applied.
+- The opinion quotes the **2014 civil-possession law** and identifies its effective enactment by veto override on **19 December 2014**. The quoted ordinary fine is **$100**, not the older profile’s generic $100–$200 range. Failure to pay within 180 days could bring a separate misdemeanour and up to three months in prison. Possession over an ounce could still bring up to one year and $5,000. The original signed Act 7700 remains a useful retrieval target; this pass relies on the court’s direct statutory quotations.
+- **Medical-cannabis Bill 32-0135**, the OCR-hosted text reported to the floor in December 2018. Read the preamble and relevant programme/cultivation/registration provisions. The preamble expressly records the **4 November 2014** advisory referendum and **56.5%** support. The question asked legislators to consider a licensed medical programme, rather than directly authorising possession. This download is a bill, not a signed Act; source title and locator say so.
+- **MPP’s contemporary 19 January 2019 press release and detailed programme summary** identify Governor Albert Bryan Jr.’s signing, sponsor Positive T.A. Nelson and December legislative passage. Its summary describes resident possession of four ounces, nonresident three ounces and twelve plants for cultivation-endorsed cards. A later commercial site says 17 January; the signed final Act 8167 was not retrieved, so the contemporary Saturday 19 January account is retained rather than silently adopting the later date. The updated history replaces Wikipedia with these attributable records. Original 2019 commencement, endorsements issued and actual early supply remain open research questions.
+- **Signed Act 8680 (2023)**, downloaded from OCR, 66 scanned pages. Full OCR retained; relevant definitions, regulator powers, sections 779–785, licensed businesses, tax, limitations and final sections 2–7 read. Visually checked printed p. 23 for patient growing: **six flowering and six immature plants** per qualified resident patient; ordinarily twelve of each per address; private property with landowner consent; no sale. This corrects the profile’s false statement that patients cannot grow. No general adult home-growing entitlement is inferred. The statute defines seeds within cannabis and has several distinct licensed/sacramental routes; it does not supply a clear general adult gifting clause, so the existing sharing 3 remains.
+- **Government House’s 18 January 2023 signing statement**: adult/medical/sacramental scheme, pardons, estimated roughly 300 prior simple-possession convictions over twenty years, applications through Justice, expungement distinction. Estimated eligibility is not converted into completed pardons or cleared records.
+- **Government House’s 16 March 2023 implementation clarification**: administration said use and sales remained prohibited until implementing rules and repeated the $100 fine for up to an ounce. It separately listed public consumption, federal facilities and personal inter-island transport as ongoing restrictions. Its hemp figure is printed as 0.03%; this pass does not recycle it as the current hemp definition.
+- **Government House’s 17 November 2023 expungement invitation**: asked people with qualifying cases involving up to two ounces to come forward because gaps in judicial data complicated automatic relief. Positive Nelson’s task force is identified. This is implementation, not a newly enacted possession reform or proof all records were cleared.
+- **Approved 2024 rules**, OCR-hosted 127-page scanned PDF: full OCR retained; definitions, registration, conditional licensing, relevant operating/testing/sacramental sections and approval pages reviewed. **Visually inspected pp. 125–126**: Governor Bryan’s approval is dated **4 May 2024**; Lieutenant Governor Tregenza Roach’s certification and attestation are dated **13 May 2024**. OCR misread the latter as 3/10 in one place. The new event is explicitly certification on 13 May. A conditional award reserves a licensing opportunity and does not authorise buying or selling.
+- **OCR’s 16 January 2026 dispensary notice** says conditional approvals are as of 15 January. Entry date is publication of the notice, not an invented award meeting. The page’s embedded applicant list was not transcribed into unsupported applicant counts.
+- **8 August 2026 Virgin Islands Consortium budget-hearing report**, by Nelcia Charlemagne, read locally: Joanne Moorehead’s conditional-licence counts, lab need, vendor/facility issue and hoped-for retail dates. Predictions are described as predictions.
+- **24 September 2026 St. Thomas Source report**, by Diana Dias: quotes Moorehead reporting the Tier 1 St. Croix certificate to operate and an operational lab awaiting plants. Report date is used for the milestone; an exact earlier certificate issuance date is not invented. Its hemp votes concern draft provisions, not full promulgation of the hemp rules.
+- **4 October 2026 VIBE HIGH market update**, secondary reporting: still no dispensary open for sales. The profile explicitly attributes this to an October update, rather than claiming direct observation of every business on 24 October. The official OCR page and conditional award notices do not alone prove a retail launch. No current access score is raised.
+- **Act 9072**, signed **23 January 2026**, official OCR PDF, seven pages: relevant definitions, licensing requirements, fines, inventory freeze and licensed-retailer age/testing/packaging requirements read. Its heading sounds like an absolute prohibition, but the operative text establishes an OCR licence/permit route. Hemp uses a total delta-9 THC definition including THCA at 0.3% dry weight; intoxicating/altered products fall into distinct categories. Do not describe THCA/altered cannabinoids as generally permitted merely because a product is marketed as hemp.
+- **Act 9079**, signed **26 March 2026**, official OCR PDF, six pages: section 3 expressly replaces the original inventory rule, requiring a list within 60 days and sale or disposal within 75 days, then an OCR disposition plan. Visually inspected PDF pp. 4 and 6 because OCR omitted a line of the inventory-list requirement and misread the approval day. The law contains unrelated appropriation and serious-illness provisions, which are not presented as cannabis reforms.
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+## Scoring and legal-stage decisions
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+**Current exact score remains 33** (possession 5, cultivation 1, enforcement 6, sharing 3, consumption 3, access 0). Patient-specific and sacramental growing do not establish general adult home growing. Conditional dispensary licences, a working lab and an operating grow do not prove retail access. Medical metadata stays `limited`.
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+**Historical enforcement correction:** the 2023 entry’s `before.enforcement` is changed from 4 (fines/diversion only) to 2 (prison possible, fines typical). The court expressly identifies imprisonment for unpaid 2014 fines. The 2014 entry already started from enforcement 2; keeping the later pre-2023 value at 2 prevents a fictional fine-only interval. The possession change in December 2014 is retained, as is the current enforcement 6 after the 2023 enactment. No other historical score vector changes.
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+**2023 enactment versus executive implementation:** Act 8680 section 7 expressly makes sections 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 effective on enactment. Section 1 contains the possession allowances, and section 6 exempts compliant conduct from the earlier controlled-drug chapter. Government House nevertheless said in March that use and sales remained prohibited pending regulations, and that even up-to-one-ounce possession still attracted a fine. The history retains the scored statutory-enactment milestone on 18 January, adds the March statement in its own entry, and records May 2024 certification separately. The articles report the implementation warning instead of implying immediate shop opening. Judicial resolution of the apparent conflict, and actual enforcement in that interval, remain open; do not pretend the executive announcement repealed the statute or silently move its effective date without that evidence.
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+**Hemp transition:** the January 2026 entry is `tightening` because it imposes new licensing requirements and penalties; the March entry is `easing` for the inventory sales/disposal window. Both have explicit `unscored` explanations: this distinct product regime does not establish a change in ordinary adult cannabis possession or open cannabis shops. The inserted March text refers to “the effective date of this act”; no precise calendar deadline is calculated from that potentially ambiguous reference. Dates in entries are signed approvals. Draft hemp-board votes in September are described as draft votes.
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+## Retrieval failures and further gaps
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+- The official governance page links Act 8925 at `https://billtracking.legvi.org:8082/preview/Act%2F8925`. Direct retrieval timed out and web retrieval did not return a usable act. Its full 2024 amendment remains to be read, including nonresident certification duration, board changes, licence fees and location buffers. Later secondary reporting is a lead, not a substitute for claiming every detail is certified current law. This batch avoids publishing the old statute’s visitor-certification duration and distance limits.
+- A search-result PDF viewer at `ilacdata.com` looked like a source for 8925 but its underlying PDF was a **Turkish medicine document**, unrelated to Virgin Islands law. The local `law2024.pdf/.txt` download is rejected and must never be cited as this amendment. Official OCR governance links are the authoritative retrieval leads.
+- St. Thomas/St. John Source blocked direct downloads of some articles, while web extraction worked. The September Source report was read through web extraction; the local VIBE HIGH September report corroborates the lead but is not substituted for the Source citation.
+- The existing 1937 first restriction was not re-audited. Earlier territorial laws, the federal Controlled Substances Act transition, the complete 2014 statute, 2019 actual patient access, 2024 amendments and any later retail opening remain substantial gaps.
+- The hemp retailer litigation and temporary restraining order are leads in later reporting. No court order was read in this pass, so neither a checked court event nor an article claim about its binding scope is added.
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+## Verification
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+The batch verifier checks IDs, categories/tags, source-reference coverage, related and article links, 350–500-word length and three-to-five section headings. All six articles have four sections and 358–384 words. It asserts unchanged current scores and exactly the one intended historical enforcement-vector correction. Production and rendered-reference verification results are recorded after the build, whose temporary output is then removed. A private-index commit includes only this batch’s history objects, the country profile, six articles and this memo, preserving unrelated staged source-archive changes.
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+Production build passed: **4,015 pages**. Rendered verification passed for **126 citation links**, affected history/profile pages, batch tag pages, JSON/CSV history exports and the profile API. Exact current score **33**, medical classification **Limited**, and all current segment scores were verified. `git diff --check` passed. The owned temporary `site/` build was removed after these checks.