Pilgrim: CCJ should have gone further

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Jenique BelgraveJournalist at Barbados Today

August 5, 2026

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Senior Counsel Andrew Pilgrim has welcomed the Caribbean Court of Justice’s landmark ruling, quashing a three-month prison sentence imposed on a man convicted of trafficking a small quantity of cannabis.

However, he said he was disappointed the region’s final appeals court stopped short of restricting imprisonment for minor marijuana offences.

“It is a good ruling for us, obviously, but it didn’t go quite as far as I was hoping it would have gone,” Pilgrim said.

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