Saint Kitts and Nevis, a small twin-island sovereign nation of about 50,000 people in the Leeward Islands chain of the Lesser Antilles in the eastern Caribbean Sea, has announced that it will track the money in its medicinal cannabis sector as closely as the plants.
The Medicinal Cannabis Authority (MCA) has contracted GrowerIQ to run a national seed-to-sale system that records every financial transaction alongside every plant and batch, from the first license application onward.
The design follows the Federation’s own rulebook. The Cannabis (Medicinal Cannabis Licensing) Regulations, SRO No. 17 of 2022 require every financial transaction connected to a licensed cannabis business to be recorded in the national tracking system, with the authority holding real-time read access.
Regulation 55 names seventeen transaction categories, from investments, loans and capital expenditure through rent, salaries and taxes to dividends and banking. The regulation ties the requirement to the country’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing obligations.
The authority is putting that system in place ahead of the first commercial license. Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Marine Resources, the Hon. Samal Duggins, has said the tracking system sets the foundation for the structured rollout of commercial licensing, patient registration and research.
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“What is recorded properly from day one never has to be reconstructed later,” said Randel Thompson, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Marine Resources. “That is what this system gives the Federation, and it is in place before the first license is issued.”
Saint Kitts and Nevis is the third Caribbean government to select GrowerIQ for national cannabis traceability, after Barbados in 2023 and Saint Lucia in 2026. The platform supports EU-GMP and GACP workflows and operates in more than 24 countries and seven languages.
Local producers will be trained on the system before commercial operations begin.
