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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Jamaica's Parish Councils Want Share of Fees Relating to Planting, Sale of Marijuana 🌿Jamaica's Parish Councils Want Share of Fees Relating to Planting, Sale of Marijuana
The island’s parish councils want to be able to make regulations that will enable them to earn fees from commercial activities relating to ganja.
The Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) council meeting yesterday supported a resolution passed by the St Catherine Parish Council on January 14 for the Portmore Municipal Council and all the other councils to be allowed to make regulations to enable the sharing of fees related to the “cultivation, processing, distribution, sale, and handling of marijuana within their particular jurisdiction”.
The resolution pointed out that the Dangerous Drug Act had been amended to allow for the decriminalisation of small quantities of marijuana; that the cultivation of up to five plants per household is permissible, while allowing possession of marijuana for certified research; and that Rastafarians are now allowed to use the “herb” for sacramental purposes for the first time since the formation of their movement in the...
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