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Growing any cannabis plant is prohibited, subject to regulations authorising activities under the Act.[@law] The 2020 licensing bill proposed a regulated cultivation system, but the governor set preparatory work and a UK Home Office agreement as conditions for assent, and the July 2026 legal review still reported it awaiting assent.[@bill, lrc](/history/bvi-cannabis-bills-held-2020/)
The Act provides powers for ministerial licences and regulations authorising specified act … roposed using existing legislation to arrange medical administration by doctors.[@premier](/history/bvi-medical-cannabis-way-forward-2023/) The broader 2020 licensing bill still lacked assent in the July 2026 official review.[@lrc](/history/bvi-cannabis-bills-held-2020/) The published 2020 bill had proposed dispensary sales with different requirements for proof of age, a declaration of therapeutic use or a medical document.[@bill]
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Cannabis and resin are listed as Class B controlled drugs.[@law] The published 2020 bill proposed dispensary sales with different requirements for proof of age, a declaration of therapeutic use or a medical document.[@bill] The July 2026 review still reported the bill awaiting assent.[@lrc]
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The Act gives the minister powers to regulate authorised controlled-drug activities, inclu … 3 that work remained on arrangements for doctors to administer medical cannabis.[@premier](/history/bvi-medical-cannabis-way-forward-2023/) The 2020 licensing bill still lacked assent in the July 2026 review.[@lrc](/history/bvi-cannabis-bills-held-2020/)
The law permits forfeiture of drugs and property connected with offences, with special rules for conveyances used or intended for drug trafficking and procedures for owners to seek restoration — extended to trafficking conveyances in 1996.[@law](/history/bvi-trafficking-vehicle-forfeiture-1996/) A 2020 bill proposed clearing some historic cannabis convictions, but it remained unassented in the July 2026 review.[@lrc](/history/bvi-cannabis-bills-held-2020/)
word weed · lang English (British Virgin Islands) · meaning The word the local press uses for the drug — a USVI visitor brought weed in to help him relax · sources fine
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treatment criminal · term Ordinary possession offence · upto 50 g · note Applies below the supply-presumption threshold, label Over 50 g · treatment criminal · term Rebuttable presumption of possession for supply · note Cannabis or resin; the presumption can be rebutted, label Reported 2015 sentence (15.2 g) · treatment criminal · term $5,000 fine or six months · fine 5000 · prison 6 months · note Visitor case, payable immediately or prison in default
There is no legal recreational market. Possessing cannabis is an offence, with a rebuttable supply presumption above 50 g; the 2020 licensing and record-clearing bills never received assent after the governor set preparatory work and a UK agreement as conditions.[@law](/history/bvi-cannabis-bills-held-2020/) In 2023 the premier proposed a doctors' route under existing legislation instead.[@premier] The drug law descends from the Leeward Islands' 1937 Act, the same federal law that covered Antigua.(/history/leeward-islands-dangerous-drugs-act-1937-antigua/)
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No hemp programme operates. The 2020 licensing bill concerned cannabis licensing and record-clearing, not an operating hemp market, and it never received assent.[@bill, lrc](/history/bvi-cannabis-bills-held-2020/)
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