Topic: Misuse of Drugs Law

Police have arrested a 25-year old man from West Bay and a 42-year old woman from George Town for drug-related offences after patrol officers searched their car parked near West Bay Public Beach on Wednesday night shortly after 11 pm.

Police and customs officers arrested a 31-year-old woman on Cayman Brac on Friday following a drug operation.

Three Jamaican nationals appeared in Summary Court on Monday charged with being concerned in the importation of approximately 313 pounds of ganja.

A senior immigration officer and a teenager appeared in Summary Court on Tuesday morning, charged with various offenses in connection with an August police raid on the officer’s Savannah home.

A Cayman Islands assistant chief immigration officer was charged Friday with offenses under the local Immigration Law and the Misuse of Drugs Law in relation to a police raid at her home in August.

Cayman Islands Governor Helen Kilpatrick has assented to changes to the Misuse of Drugs Law allowing for the importation of oil derived from the marijuana plant for medical purposes only.

Legislation that would legalize cannabis oil for medicinal purposes in the Cayman Islands was introduced Friday afternoon, but Legislative Assembly debate on the measure was held until Monday. Premier Alden McLaughlin said he agreed to bring forward proposed changes to the Misuse of Drugs Law.

Government has published amendments to the Misuse of Drugs Law to allow doctors to prescribe “cannabis extracts and tinctures” as controlled drugs.

Government has warned there are no guarantees that cannabis oil will be available to patients in the Cayman Islands – even after medical use is legalized.

Ten months after a Honduran fishing vessel was impounded by Cayman authorities, attorney John Furniss successfully argued for its return to its owner after payment of costs for “transporting and keeping” the vessel.