This Bill is about providing safe access to cannabis for specific purposes, providing a funding source for our failing GERS system, and creating entrepreneurship and employment opportunities for local residents. It is also about encouraging broad local access; private growers and small farmers will have a way to legally sell their products and access the supply chain. Retail dispensaries will required to buy at least 70% of their product from local growers, vertical integration is discouraged, and cultivation, processing and licenses will be limited in number and reserved for USVI residents. This is a clean and sustainable local industry, with a significant off-island customer base. More than 60% of USVI visitors come from States that have fully or partially legalized cannabis. On average, in states that have been legal for a few years, nearly…
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Despite the inability to vote for the U.S. Commander-in-Chief, citizens of the Virgin Islands proudly…