Petition to legalize marijuana on Rota
A PETITION urging the legislative delegation of Rota to legalize marijuana for the “economic benefit” of the island has been circulating since last year, Variety learned.
The petition has been signed by more than 300 residents, students and parents since it was launched in June 2014.
The signatories are urging the island’s lawmakers to enact local legislation legalizing the growing, selling and smoking of marijuana (cannabis) for leisure and for medicinal purposes on Rota.
According to the petition, Rota is the most economically depressed island in the commonwealth.
There is “a large number of educated and productive members of the community leaving Rota to seek employment abroad.”
The “high cost of commodities as well as the lack of goods and services available are greatly affecting the daily livelihood of the people.”
“The lack of adequate transportation both surface and air is a contributing factor to the high cost of food...
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