The Grena­da par­lia­ment has giv­en the green light to leg­is­la­tion amend­ing the ex­ist­ing mar­i­jua­na leg­is­la­tion mar­i­jua­na even as Prime Min­is­ter Dick­on Mitchell Tues­day said that his pref­er­ence had been for the de­crim­i­nal­i­sa­tion to take ef­fect from the age of 18 years giv­en that it is al­so the age of civ­il re­spon­si­bil­i­ty.

How­ev­er, he told Par­lia­ment that he had to set­tle for age 21 be­cause of the “pas­sion­ate de­bate” that con­vinced him that it was a bet­ter choice that 18 years.

“There was pas­sion­ate de­bate, we went back and forth…if you are an adult you are an adult, 18 is 18, we recog­nise 18, you can dri­ve, you can vote, you can get mar­ried, so from my per­spec­tive you should be al­lowed at 18 if you do so wish to choose but I was in the mi­nor­i­ty,” Mitchell said as he made his con­tri­bu­tion to the de­bate on the amend­ment of the Drug Abuse (Pre­ven­tion and Con­trol) (Amend­ment) Bill, 2026 that re­ceived the sup­port of both gov­ern­ment and op­po­si­tion leg­is­la­tors.