Origin from 2026
In January 2026, Grenada's Parliament approved the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) (Amendment) Bill, decriminalizing possession of up to 56 grams of cannabis and 15 grams of cannabis resin for adults 21 and older, and permitting registered households to cultivate up to four plants. Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell told Parliament that although he had favored setting the age at 18, matching the age of civil responsibility, he deferred to medical and mental health experts on adolescent brain development after what he called passionate debate. The amendment separately affirms the constitutional rights of Grenada's Rastafari community, permitting cannabis use as a sacrament within registered places of worship and at approved special events, with cultivation allowances specific to those settings. Governor General Dame Cecile La Grenade assented to the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) (Amendment) Act, 2026 on 13 February 2026, and it was published in the Grenada Government Gazette on 20 February 2026 in St George's. The reform stops short of full legalization: there is no recreational retail market, and public consumption of cannabis remains a fixed penalty offense.
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Start YearSourced to the subject's own account StatusEstablished marks a national drug law reform that affirms Rastafari sacramental cannabis use in registered settings, not a claim that Grenada has recognized Rastafari as a religion the way Saint Kitts and Nevis did weeks earlier, and not a claim about the size of Grenada's own Rastafari community, which this fact does not address. Cross-Tradition Connections
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Adds a fact not yet on the map: a second and separate Caribbean nation, Grenada, writing Rastafari sacramental cannabis protections into national drug law within weeks of this timeline's already cited Saint Kitts and Nevis recognition, through a different legal mechanism, a decriminalization statute rather than a declaration of religious status.
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