Financial institution of Guam announced in a press release on Wednesday that the launch of “Hashish Banking” will give it a “platform [to allow] hashish purchasers the flexibility to share knowledge from their day-to-day enterprise actions, akin to gross sales, stock and required licensing documentation.”
In response to The Guam Every day Publish, “Hashish Banking” will make the establishment the primary within the area “to serve ‘all tiers’ of cannabis-related companies, or CRBs.”
“It has at all times been the mission of our founder to serve the underserved and to offer entry to secure and safe banking companies to our communities. This now contains our cannabis-related companies. As your associate in progress, we’re dedicated to extending our experience as trusted monetary advisers to this new {industry} and to permit our native cannabis-related companies who observe the method and play by the principles, a good likelihood to succeed,” Financial institution of Guam President and CEO Joaquin L.G. Cook dinner mentioned within the press launch, as quoted by the Guam Every day Publish.
Per the outlet, Financial institution of Guam will start this month to “supply deposit and lending companies to CRBs in Guam and Saipan legally licensed to interact.” These CRBs are “organizations or companies that develop, course of, dispense, administer or derive earnings from promoting marijuana merchandise,” according to the Daily Post, which supplied the next breakdown of the qualifying companies:
“(Tier 1) Direct Hashish-Associated Companies: Companies licensed to the touch the plant immediately. Kinds of direct CRBs embrace grownup use/medical use, retail, processing, cultivation, dispensaries, seed producers, testing, supply and consumption lounges. (Tier 2) Oblique Hashish-Associated Companies: Contains industry-specific skilled companies. Kinds of oblique CRBs embrace operations help akin to attorneys and accountants, landlords, hydroponic suppliers, packaging suppliers, supply machine suppliers, safety companies, hashish consultants, marijuana testing amenities, employment/payroll suppliers and hashish software program suppliers. (Tier 3) Hemp-Associated Companies: Companies licensed by the US Division of Agriculture or state regulatory company to develop, take a look at, or in any other case put together hemp. (Tier 3) Cannabidiol Companies: Companies engaged within the manufacturing or sale of hemp-derived cannabinoids meant for human or animal consumption, as regulated by the Meals and Drug Administration.”
Guam legalized leisure hashish in 2019 with the “Guam Hashish Industries Act,” which, per NORML, “legalizes the non-public possession of marijuana by adults, and establishes rules governing the plant’s industrial manufacturing and retail sale.”
NORML continued: “The legislation permits these age 21 or older to legally possess and switch as much as one ounce of marijuana flower and/or eight grams of concentrated hashish. The measure, which took speedy impact, additionally permits adults to privately domesticate as much as six hashish crops (not more than three mature) in an ‘enclosed, locked area.’ Public consumption of hashish will stay a violation of legislation. The Act creates a brand new regulatory board to draft guidelines governing the plant’s industrial manufacturing and retail sale. The board has a one-year timeline to undertake guidelines mandatory to allow for the operation of licensed hashish institutions.”
Guam’s regulated hashish market has been gradual to take form, nevertheless. In 2022, it was reported that no one had applied for a cannabis retail license yet.
In response to the Guam Every day Publish, the “hashish {industry} has but to take off on Guam as there have been varied roadblocks, together with allowing points which have affected not less than one potential cultivator.”
The outlet mentioned that Guam remains to be awaiting clearance on an important testing laboratory.
“A testing laboratory is integral to creating a industrial hashish {industry} on Guam. No hashish or hashish merchandise may be offered with out being examined for efficiency and security. Basically, and not using a testing laboratory, there may be no {industry} on the island below the present rules,” the outlet defined.
In 2021, Guam’s governor, Lou Leon Guerrero, said that the territory had reached an settlement with a U.S.-based firm referred to as Metrc to supervise the hashish regulatory methods. Guerrero’s workplace mentioned on the time that Metrc’s “system combines superior software program, radio-frequency identification (RFID), a devoted buyer help crew, and a safe database to trace hashish from progress, harvest and processing, to testing, transport, and sale,” and that the corporate “holds unique authorities contracts in varied areas of the US, together with Alaska, California, and Washington, D.C.”
“During the last decade, now we have seen substantial proof that hashish has medicinal advantages. With the ultimate overview by our Hashish Management Board on the principles and rules for the {industry}, we are able to extra effectively management leisure use and guarantee secure and controlled merchandise,” Guerrero mentioned on the time. “The hashish {industry} will profit our group by funding expanded public companies in well being and public security, and offering various therapy and rehabilitation for individuals who want it.”
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