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Adults get cannabis from their own four home-grown plants: since March 2018 holding up to 15 g is not an offence, and use at home is lawful, while public smoking is banned as with tobacco. Registered religious adherents may hold and grow more for sacramental use. There are no general adult-use shops; supply stays criminal outside registered religious dispensing.
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Adults can grow three plants atget cannabis from their permanentown three home. Supplying-grown plants: up to 28 g of cannabis remains unlawfulor resin is exempt from ordinary possession penalties, so the reform provides no legal retail routeand earlier small-possession convictions are spent.[@act2020] Supply to another person stays criminal, and possession on school premises raises a rebuttable trafficking presumption.[@act1988]
Private personal use by adults is constitutionally protected since the 2019 High Court ruling.[@judgment] The statute adds EC$50 ticket bands: up to 56 g of cannabis or 15 g of resin, and up to five secured home plants, with the holder keeping the cannabis or plants.[@drugs23] A Freedom of Conscience licence route for five home plants opened forms in April 2026.[@conscience23,gov26] Public smoking carries an EC$500 ticket, and supply stays criminal outside registered worship use.[@drugs23,sknis19]
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Home growing provides a personal supply of up toAdults get cannabis from their own four home-grown plants per dwelling-house: up to 30 g is exempt from the ordinary possession offence, with aand private use only is allowed — public smoking stays criminal.[@exemption8a,cult_regs,mh] Supply to others remains an offence, and school premises and their 100-yard school exclusionzones carry separate bans and a rebuttable supply presumption. There is no authorised recreational retail market.[@cult_regsschool12,schoolgrow,rsa_act,bill_reviewmh]
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