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Expand St Lucia: 30g/4-plant tables, hemp, black market, four articles

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Saint Lucia countries/lc.yaml

segments › cultivation › text

Up to four plants per dwelling-house are permitted.[@cult_regs](/history/saint-lucia-home-growing-regulations-2021/) Cultivation in or within 100 yards of school premises is prohibited, including nursery schools, universities and their off-site playing fields.[@schoolgrow]

context › production › text

The Regulated Substances Authority, established in 2023,(/history/saint-lucia-regulated-substances-authority-2023/) is building a licensing and traceability system, but the cannabis-specific licensing bill remains a proposal rather than an operating market law. The January 2025 draft covers cannabis and industrial hemp.(/history/saint-lucia-cannabis-bill-consultation-2025/)

segments › possession › penalties

treatment legal · term Exempt from offence and punishment · upto 30 g · note Section 8A exemption from the ordinary possession offence and section 37 punishment, label In or near schools · treatment criminal · term Separate school-zone offence · note Section 12 ban plus rebuttable supply presumption; interaction with section 8A unresolved

segments › cultivation › penalties

treatment legal · term Home growing allowance · upto 4 plants · note Per dwelling-house, shared between occupants; indoor growing in one room, label In or near schools · treatment criminal · term School-zone cultivation ban · note Prohibited in or within 100 yards of school premises including off-site playing fields

context › hemp › status

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context › hemp › text

No hemp programme is in operation. Industrial hemp appears only in the January 2025 draft Cannabis and Industrial Hemp Bill, published for consultation.(/history/saint-lucia-cannabis-bill-consultation-2025/)

context › hemp › sources

bill_review

context › black market › text

A 2011 narcotics-control report found cannabis was the only drug grown locally in Saint Lucia, meeting about 20 percent of local demand; the rest came from Jamaica, Saint Vincent, the United States and South America.[@wiki](/history/saint-lucia-local-supply-2011/)

context › black market › sources

wiki

Articles and atlas entries 4

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docs/research/expansion-2026-10-28-americas-6.md +27 −0
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+# Americas-6 batch — expansion-2026-10-28-americas-6 (lc, sv, ag, bm, cr, gd, hn)
+
+Non-Asian batch per request: Americas + Caribbean from the global top-50 not yet done
+and not excluded (skip USA national/states — separate track; Canada — separate job;
+Eritrea/Somaliland/Sudan — closed/recent; Africa top ranks — done in Africa-1..6 or by
+others; kp — Asia; cw/sr — done in Americas-5; gy — another agent's blocker noted).
+
+- lc Saint Lucia 180k, work 26: 1 standard section missing, no penalty tables, 6 empty decades, 1 key entry without article, 1 Wikipedia-only text
+- sv El Salvador 6M, work 16: 6 empty decades, 1 key entry without article
+- ag Antigua and Barbuda 94k, work 30: 1 standard section missing, products to fold, no penalty tables, 6 empty decades, 1 key entry without article
+- bm Bermuda 65k, work 32: 1 standard section missing, products to fold, no penalty tables, 5 empty decades, 1 key entry without article
+- cr Costa Rica 5M, work 15: 4 empty decades, nothing since 2024, 1 key entry without article
+- gd Grenada 117k, work 27: 1 standard section missing, products to fold, no penalty tables, 5 empty decades, 1 key entry without article
+- hn Honduras 11M, work 14: 4 empty decades, 1 key entry without article
+
+## lc — committed
+- Possession table (≤30 g legal exemption; school-zone label row criminal) + cultivation table (≤4 plants legal home-grow; school-zone ban row); 2021 regs article linked from cultivation.
+- New `articles/saint-lucia-home-growing-regulations-2021.md` (Gazette SI 208) + `articles/saint-lucia-cannabis-bill-consultation-2025.md` (2025 draft, no retail) + `articles/saint-lucia-regulated-substances-authority-2023.md` (RSA 2023, system still building) + `articles/saint-lucia-local-supply-2011.md` (INCSR: only locally grown drug, ~20% of demand).
+- Hemp (status none — only in the unpassed 2025 draft) + black_market (2011 supply geography) sections added; production carries 2023/2025 article links.
+- Audit 0 errors + 1 pre-existing warning (production status none vs "licensing" in the original text — correctly none, no medical production exists); page + all four articles verified in review HTML.
+- Left: words (no sourced Kwéyòl/local term found), culture (no atlas entries), over-30 g tiers (no numbers in retained sources), 1988-convention entry (imp 1, skipped).
+## sv — pending
+## ag — pending
+## bm — pending
+## cr — pending
+## gd — pending
+## hn — pending
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