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upto 28 g · treatment legal · note Ordinary possession exemption only; school-premises trafficking presumption and separate offences remain, label School-premises trafficking conviction · treatment criminal · term Trafficking · prison min 7 years · prison 15 years · note Summary conviction; indictment can bring life. Possession on school premises raises a rebuttable presumption, not an automatic trafficking conviction
A person aged 18 or older may grow up to three cannabis plants at the place where they permanently live (section 8(1A)).[@act2020] Any other growing remains unlawful unless regulations allow it, punishable on summary conviction with three years and $100,000 or on indictment with fourteen years and $200,000.[@act1988](/history/dominica-drugs-prevention-act-1988/)
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The amendment covers possession and home growing only.[@act2020] Supplying cannabis to another person remains an offence.[@act1988]
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Use at a private home is lawful.[@act2020] Smoking or using cannabis in a public place, vaping included, is an offence with a fine of 1,500 East Caribbean dollars, which does not go on the person's criminal record (section 7B).[@act2020] A private residence not used for business and a usual place of worship of the Rastafarian or another faith do not count as public places.[@act2020]
No lawful place to buy: the 2020 amendment covers possession and home growing only, and supplying cannabis to another person remains an offence.[@act2020,act1988] The government has spoken of building a cannabis industry, but no licensing regime for sales is in force.[@caricom,caricom20]
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No commercial licensing is in operationproduction operates; the 2020 change covers personal possession and home growing only.[@act2020]
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No functioningThe reviewed laws establish no medical cannabis programme or medical-use route.[@act2020,act1988]
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Cannabis is defined as the plant and every part of it, so seeds and cuttings fall within the 28 g possession exception.[@act1988] An adult may cultivate up to three cannabis plants at their permanent residence, but the reform did not create an exception for supplying seeds, clones or other cannabis to somebody else.[@act2020]
All sales are illegal.[@act1988] Police figures suggest cannabis is a small part of the drugs moving through the island nex … November 2025, cannabis accounted for about 1.2 million and cocaine for about 52 million.[@dno25](/history/dominica-drug-burn-2025/)
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No cannabis clubs are known, and no law provides for them: the 2020 amendment covers possession and home growing only, and supplying cannabis to another person remains an offence.[@act2020,act1988]
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Vehicles and Road Traffic Act section 55 covers driving, attempting to drive or being in charge of a motor vehicle on a road when drugs prevent proper control.[@trafficpublished] Unfitness is defined as impaired ability to drive properly. The published 1995 consolidation lists EC$2,000 and twelve months' imprisonment for a first conviction, and EC$3,500 and two years for a repeat.[@trafficpublished] It specifies a one-to-five-year disqualification unless the court finds special reasons.[@trafficpublished] Those published penalty levels require verification against later amendments; they are not a certified 2026 tariff.[@trafficpublished] Section 57 allows blood/urine evidence and adverse use of an unjustified refusal, but requ … request before treating the sequence as refusal; the first urine specimen is disregarded.[@trafficpublished] The numerical concentration offence in section 56 concerns alcohol. No THC allowance, deployed saliva-screening procedure or medical-cannabis defence was established from the reviewed text.[@trafficpublished]
Wikipedia — Cannabis in Dominica
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upto 3 plants · treatment legal · note Adults 18+ at permanent residence; no supply of seeds, clones or cannabis to others, label Unlawful cannabis cultivation, summary conviction · treatment criminal · term Cultivation of cannabis · prison 3 years · fine 100000, label Unlawful cannabis cultivation, conviction on indictment · treatment criminal · term Cultivation of cannabis · prison 14 years · fine 200000
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No hemp exception was established in the reviewed laws, which define cannabis as the plant and every part of it.[@act1988]
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