Victor D. Cabrera, who started running his family’s farm 20 years ago after graduating from college, is now the first person in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands allowed to grow cannabis for the commonwealth’s fledgling recreational cannabis industry.
“I’m an indoor grower,” said Cabrera, who last Friday was issued the CNMI’s first cannabis industry license – a level one grower’s license that will allow him to grow cannabis with a canopy space of up to 750 square feet.
“I started Saturday,” said Cabrera, 44, who is growing cannabis in a building in the Saipan village of Chalan Laulau.
“I’m hoping that it will be a successful industry, and we can keep it at a point where a lot of the local indigenous people will be able to take part in it,” Cabrera said. He noted the CNMI issues licenses only to applicants who have lived in the CNMI for at least five years, in order to prevent large businesses from coming in and monopolizing the industry.
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