A separate prison-contraband law made knowingly bringing cannabis into a prison or detention facility punishable by up to ten years. Its special definition included cannabis among narcotic drugs; the territory’s Supreme Court later upheld that rule in a corrections officer’s case.[1]
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References
- Virgin Islands Supreme Court — McIntosh v. People, 29 November 20122012 · 57 V.I. 669, pp. 684–692 and notes 5–6: 1970 prison law, 1971 commencement, cannabis classification, sentence and remand; judicial opinion reproduced by OpenJurist.
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