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Ban 🇻🇮 US Virgin Islands

The US Virgin Islands come under the Marihuana Tax Act

Index score

10011

−89 points

An executive order of President Roosevelt carried the new federal Marihuana Tax Act into the Virgin Islands. From 1 October 1937 it was unlawful to import, grow, make or deal in cannabis without registering and paying the tax, which in practice ended legal trade, as on the mainland.[1]

Score by segment 0 to 10

  1. Possession · 25%10 1−9
  2. Personal cultivation · 25%10 1−9
  3. Punishment & enforcement · 20%10 2−8
  4. Sharing & gifting · 10%10 1−9
  5. Consumption · 10%10 1−9
  6. Legal access · 10%10 0−10

The bar shows the score after the change; the tick marks where it stood before. US Virgin Islands's scores have changed again since.

References

  1. Executive Order 7715, prescribing regulations for carrying the Marihuana Tax Act into effect in the Virgin Islands (Federal Register, 30 September 1937)archived

Checked. The date and the event were compared with a source that was read. The score before the change is an editorial estimate.

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