{"id":4149,"date":"2019-05-03T21:53:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T01:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/?p=4149"},"modified":"2019-05-03T21:55:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T01:55:34","slug":"marijuana-now-legal-in-st-kitts-nevis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/marijuana-now-legal-in-st-kitts-nevis\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana, now legal in St. Kitts-Nevis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ras Iya wins. Rastas on St. Kitts-Nevis now have right to smoke ganja in privacy for religious purposes.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>St Kitts-Nevis High Court judge rules Rastafarians users of marijuana have right to smoke in privacy of their homes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A High Court judge has ordered that the Drug Act of St Kitts and Nevis must be amended to allow the religious use of marijuana .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to sources, His Lordship the Hon Eddy Ventose in a ruled that the laws should be amended and updated within 90 days after he made a declaration that Rastafarians and users of marijuana have a right to smoke in privacy of their home.<br>The case was brought by Samande &#8220;Ras Iya&#8221; Reid who represented himself .<br>Sources also indicate that two provisions of the Drugs Act were declared unconstitutional and those provisions are in relation to possession and cultivation.<br>The ruling is not just use of marijuana by Rastafarians but anyone who uses it in the privacy of their home.<br>Judge Ventose&#8217;s ruling also implications for persons awaiting trial, presently serving time and who were previously convicted under the two provisions in relation to cultivation and possession.<br>More information and clarification are to come from the release of the written judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Source: St Kitts Nevis Daily<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ras Iya wins. Rastas on St. Kitts-Nevis now have right to smoke ganja in privacy for religious purposes. St Kitts-Nevis High Court judge rules Rastafarians users of marijuana have right to smoke in privacy of their homes A High Court judge has ordered that the Drug Act of St Kitts ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[114],"class_list":["post-4149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-marijuana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}