Many black people will be frozen out of legal cannabis use because they will be unable to afford an annual $750 licence fee for personal cultivation, campaigners warned yesterday.
Social Justice Bermuda said the fee could keep the illegal cannabis market alive by encouraging people to grow cannabis without permission.
The group appealed to the Government to review its proposed Cannabis (Licensing and Regulation) Act 2020, which was designed to modernise legislation on the drug.
A spokeswoman for Social Justice Bermuda welcomed the move to allow the public to grow cannabis.
But she added: “It was disappointing to see the prohibitive pricing of the personal cultivation licence.
“This fee excludes many of our country’s lower-income earners from participating in the legal growing scheme and restricts their options for accessing what, in many cases, is their medicine and in all cases a more economical option for health.
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