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October 5th, 2020
USVI police searching for men who forced cat to smoke marijuana

VI CONSORTIUM

FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI— The [US] Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) is seeking the community's assistance to identify and locate two men who were seen on video forcing a cat to smoke marijuana, according to police spokesman Toby Derima.

April 23rd, 2020
Youth who broke curfew to buy weed jailed for 2 mths

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Despite his passionate plea for a non-custodial sentence, stating that he wanted to spend an upcoming birthday with his infant child, Nikolai Brathwaite was sentenced to two months at Her Majesty’s Prison for ‘Breach of Curfew.’

January 30th, 2020
Man fined $650 for 3 grams of weed

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A man was on Wednesday, January 29, 2020, fined $650 at the Magistrate’s Court in John's Hole, Tortola, for having three grams of cannabis.

September 13th, 2019
‘It’s weed officer’- Greenland man allegedly told police

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A man from Greenland, on the eastern end of Tortola, was fined $400.00 after he pleaded guilty before the Magistrate’s Court on September 12, 2019 for having a small quantity of marijuana in his possession.

May 2nd, 2016
Legalise the ‘weed’ in the VI - Jamal S. Smith

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Well respected local attorney at law Jamal S. Smith raised eyebrows in the High Court when he said the Virgin Islands (VI) has some of the highest grade of cannabis sativa in the world and this is why he is against the importation of the drug while being a proponent of its legalisation.

June 21st, 2015
USVI man brings ‘weed’ into VI to help him ‘relax’

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – When Thomas D. Mannix packed among his clothing and other personal belongings two packets of cannabis sativa (marijuana) to bring with him to the Virgin Islands, he thought he was only bringing his “necessaries” to use after a hard day’s work.

November 8th, 2013
‘Baby mama drama’ leads man to dime bag – Court hears

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Raphael Harrigan, 22, allegedly told officers that ‘baby mama drama’ led to him to be in possession of cannabis near the Purcell community basketball court in August, 2013.

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