Restore Grenada 2026 article overwritten by mistake (other agent's version)

From Grenada was, in its attorney general's words, "one of the last jurisdictions" in the region to act. When it did, it allowed more than most of its neighbours and stopped at the same point: no shops. ## A second attempt A first bill, tabled in [2021](/history/grenada-bill-2021/), died with the dissolution of Parliament. The party that won the 2022 election had promised reform, and the new prime minister, Dickon Mitchell, put it in terms of police time: "We don't want to keep on wasting state resources arresting people for a spliff." The bill passed the House on 20 January 2026 with support from both sides, and the Senate on 3 February. It was published as Act No. 1 of 2026 adults aged 21 on 20 February. The one open argument was the age: Mitchell preferred 18, found himself "in the minority", and over may possessthe Act settled on 21. ## What the Act allows - **Possession:** up to 56 g of cannabis, and or 15 g of resin is no longer an offence. Dealing is presumed from 71 g. - **Growing:** four plants or fewer at a household, each household counted separately, are outside the growing offence; specified old convictions are cleared and sale remains an offence. [@2] The agriculture ministry says growers registera grower registers with the Cannabis Secretariat and the ministry before planting, with registrationand that the rules tofor signing up would follow. [@3] Parliament passed the bill with support from both sides.[@1] The same Act createsCannabis Commission told people to ignore private groups that charge a separate offence for smoking on school premisesfee to sign growers up. - **Under 21:** no arrest, charge or in record. Children are referred to child protection and those aged 18 to 20 to counselling; the cannabis is forfeited. - **In public/open areas within:** smoking near the entrance of a public place brings a fixed penalty of 300 East Caribbean dollars and no record. Within 100 yards duringof a school hours, carryingit is a crime with up to seven years summarily or twenty years on indictmentsummary conviction. - **Rastafari:** sacramental use is exempt, withand adherents cannot be prosecuted over cannabis in a privateregistered place of worship, once the minister makes the rules. -dwelling exception **Old convictions:** those for amounts now legal are expunged, on application or on the board's own motion, and pending cases are discontinued. ## What it leaves out Nobody may sell. The Act exempts licensed medical and scientific supply, but the law that would issue licences does not exist yet; ministers called it a second phase. Until then the only lawful source is one's own plants. | Country | Since | Possession | Plants per household | |---|---|---|---| | [@2Antigua and Barbuda](/country/ag/) | 2018 | 15 g | 4 | | [Trinidad and Tobago](/country/tt/) | 2019 | 30 g | 4 | | [Dominica](/country/dm/) | 2020 | 28 g | 3 | | [Saint Lucia](/country/lc/) | 2021 | 30 g | 4 | | [Grenada](/country/gd/) | 2026 | 56 g | 4 | In the index, possession rose from 1 to 5, growing from 1 to 4, enforcement from 2 to 6 and consumption from 1 to 3. Sharing and access did not move. A grower is told to register first, and the ministry's March notice said the rules for that registration would follow.

NOW Grenada — Draft Bill and Policy Statement for the Decriminalisation of Cannabis in Grenada (14 January 2026) NOW Grenada — Government to table Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Amendment Bill (30 June 2025) NOW Grenada — Marijuana decriminalisation legislation to go before Parliament no later than June 2025 (26 February 2025) Cannabis Commission — Public advisory on unauthorised cannabis cultivation registration (27 February 2026) 3 unchanged

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