The Medicinal Cannabis Authority of St. Vincent and the Grenadines was established through the Medicinal Cannabis Industry Act, 2018. It is a body corporate with an overarching objective to regulate the cultivation, supply, possession, production and use of cannabis for medicinal purposes. This objective is consistent with the 1961 United Nation’s (UN) Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, and the 1972 Protocol (Single Convention amendment), which permit the production, manufacture, export, import, distribution of, trade in, use and possession of cannabis as it relates to medical and scientific purposes.