All drugs should be made legal, then regulated like alcohol and cigarettes.
But with that out of the way. Jamaica needs to loose its love affair with weed.
It is mashing up di place.
I concur. I have no moral reason y not.
But doing this will IMHO have an impact on Jamaica given its dependence on that cash crop.
That is madness. Yup we all want to trip over heroin addicts shooting in the hallway on our way home. How irresponsible? Anybody who would express that POV must be smoking Whacky Tabacky fi true.
That is madness. Yup we all want to trip over heroin addicts shooting in the hallway on our way home. How irresponsible? Anybody who would express that POV must be smoking Whacky Tabacky fi true.
so the only thing stopping your neighbors from becoming heroin addicts in that its illegal?
is that what is stopping you?
When its hot in the jungle of peace I go swimming in the ocean of love.....
so the only thing stopping your neighbors from becoming heroin addicts in that its illegal?
is that what is stopping you?
Come come now RichD...you know better than to ask dat. I am the paragon of virtue. I you don't think that legalizing heroin will increase it's usage, then I have my doubts about you too. I thought it was golf and tennis that floated YOUR boat.
Legalizing Marijuana: Washington Is As Confused as Europe
Legalizing marijuana, the U.S is learning, is no easy thing.
It’s a new and brave move for the State of Washington, where a measure legalizing small amounts of marijuana for personal use for anyone over 21, took effect last night. For now, though, it’s characterized by mixed signals, ambivalence and contradictory reactions on the part of federal and state governments.Even for the most experienced marijuana-tolerant countries, like the Netherlands or Spain, legalization is still an issue enveloped in confusion, contradictory laws and not as clear-cut as it’s presented to the rest of the world. Not so different, in fact, to what’s happening in the Netherlands - after decades of legal sale and consumption – despite the general belief that you can enter a coffeeshop and buy marijuana selected from an extensive menu offering many varieties and then smoke it freely wherever you want. For the Dutch, we learn, marijuana use is a private matter that should be framed by the notion that we’re all free to decide our own health habits, and that hiding social problems only serves to make them more difficult to influence and control.
What usually goes unexplained is that even in their tolerance, Dutch marijuana laws have kept production, trading and storing drugs a criminal offense – just like most countries – under the still-valid 1919 Opium Act. Among owners of Dutch coffeeshops, it’s called “the back-door problem”: While they’re free to sell cannabis in all its forms – marijuana and hashish – to clients who come through the front door of their shops, they’re breaking the law, and could face jail time each time they take in their shipments from their providers through the back door.
Police have no choice but to apply a “spirit of pragmatism” and assume a lenient attitude toward the legal contradictions.
Take Spain, another country considered extremely liberal in its marijuana laws. Nevertheless, while it has decriminalized possession of marijuana plants, trading in seeds and private consumption, it outlaws sale and transport. Public use of marijuana is a midemeanor punished by fines and confiscation. The idea is to encourage recreational drug users to stay off the streets and out of public areas – which has led to “cannabis clubs,” equivalent to the Dutch coffeeshops, but private.
Police in Spain, as well, had to learn to walk carefully over the grey line.
Not so different than the U.S., except that America’s “official” posture has never been indulgent and the curtain of taboo has remained closed, despite that weed is sold and consumed everywhere, legally under the guise of “medical marijuana” in 18 states and the District of Columbia, and has become so mainstream that it appears without censure in TV and movies. After all, the U.S is the largest consumer of drugs in the world, a fact popular culture had to reflect sooner or later.
Come come now RichD...you know better than to ask dat. I am the paragon of virtue. I you don't think that legalizing heroin will increase it's usage, then I have my doubts about you too.
but you are not as confident that there are other virtuous people around?
you think all those people trudging to work every day are just waiting for the opportunity to become addicts lying int he hallways and on the streets apartment building in a drugged up stupor?
When its hot in the jungle of peace I go swimming in the ocean of love.....
I don't have my MD papers but I have worked in a PROFESSIONAL capacity in medical settings.
Look yah Mr. Emperah mi no wan end up in no wid you today and re-start the War of the Roses so watch who you a laugh aftah.
A janitor is employed in a professional capacity. As much as a accountant or a IT or HR in a medical setting.This does not give any authority than a layperson or a priest in brain chemistry or the mechanism associated with mental conditions.
Even MDs are not experts in Pharmacology or biochemistry.
you think all those people trudging to work every day are just waiting for the opportunity to become addicts lying int he hallways and on the streets apartment building in a drugged up stupor?
The fact that some people are already doing it means that anything is possible. Don't want to see drugged out addicts lying across the door sills and the hallways of the nation.
A janitor is employed in a professional capacity. As much as a accountant or a IT or HR in a medical setting.This does not give any authority than a layperson or a priest in brain chemistry or the mechanism associated with mental conditions.
Even MDs are not experts in Pharmacology or biochemistry.
A janitor is not a professional last I checked.
I am not going to get into what I did but it was interfacing with patients and it did involve a lot of knowledge about their medical situations....and no it was not changing bedpans.
If you don't want to accept that...mi really noh bizniz,.
I am not going to get into what I did but it was interfacing with patients and it did involve a lot of knowledge about their medical situations....and no it was not changing bedpans.
If you don't want to accept that...mi really noh bizniz,.
As far as I am concerned since Peace Concert where the stadium was filled with the great and good... with shottas.. Diplomats..... in a stadium where u could according to urban legend u could have got high from secondary smoke...From the Prime Minister and leader of the oppostion who held hands with a man who had public imbided... and the police watched.... This is a central nation building myth... weed marley ..
I spent time doing security at sessions back in the day when Rita Sang... " I wanna get high" the ode to recreational use of weed...n
To me when
when a entertainers describes an encountered with authority at a dance..Tuffy no doubt can give the deal to the context to one of the cleverest song out of Jamaica,,,,,...
one ah dem sey to I Josey wales
gimmi some ganja or u gawn a jail
mi jus prip inna mi packet
fi ah rizzla
and two big stick ah deh strong ganja
den mi flick in two stick ah cocaine
dis mus touch deh babylan brain
im sey wrap anada one fi del lawyer
wrap anada one fi deh dacta
wrap anada one fi deh teacha
or the famed georgie is requested
Georgie pass the cup around
let each and every one have a sip...
He was not referring to cool aid in that cup....
Now here are people who are smarter than me who want to do legalise ,,, not ah dutty farma ...obviously the defender of the status for more than a decade our goverment agreed with the recommendation of the most conservative yanki goverment,,,,See the Nixon Commision on drugs recommendation.....
this is not a minority veiw in Jamaica......it cuts across all economic strata...
utless Governments - Advocates Say Politicians Have Refused To Capitalise On Ganja Because Of Int'l Pressurets
Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director of Drug Policy Alliance
Gary Spaulding, Senior Gleaner Writer Successive administrations are being accused of spinelessness in the pursuit of any venture aimed at legitimately utilising marijuana products in health and tourism to catapult Jamaica's limping economy forward. Attorney-at-law and advocate for the decriminalisation of ganja Miguel Lorne did not mince words during a Gleaner Editors' Forum last week as Jamaican chemist and cancer researcher Dr Henry Lowe revealed how he was discouraged from pursuing work on the medicinal properties of the weed several years ago. Lorne suggested that local politicians tended to wilt under the glare of the United States (US). "As a consequence of the US wielding that big stick over our head, our politicians are in fear," argued Lorne. More than a decade ago, several far-reaching recommendations for the decriminalisation of the use of regulated quantities of the drug were presented by a commission chaired by the late Professor Barry Chevannes of the University of the West Indies. The report of the National Commission on Ganja was turned over to the political directorate and a joint select committee of Parliament, chaired by Dr Morais Guy, was set up to examine the findings. Although the recommendations received the approval of the parliamentary committee, successive governments have failed to act on them. Since then, two parliamentarians from either side of the political divide - veteran politician Mike Henry and Raymond Pryce, the first-time member fromthe government benches - have pushed for decriminalisation of the weed. Lorne, who as a Rastafarian has vested interest in the use of the drug as a religious sacrament, was critical of the Government for complaining about severe economic conditions while not using the means at their disposal to find a way out. "All too often, the excuses governments proffer in dealing with most problems are related to economics," argued Lorne. "I think we are now, more economically dependent on foreign aid, grants, assistance, and loans." He said it was for this reason that the Government did not want to rock any boat that might restrict some of the flows that it badly needs to solve its various problems. "For the Government to see ganja as part of the economic security that can be derived by the country, they must see as we do, that ganja can give you much more money than we borrowed from the International Monetary Fund (IMF)." For one, Lorne argued that in making use of the range of properties that can yield great wealth, Jamaica would not be forced to contend with the painful conditions that the IMF has laid down. "With this sort of big Washington over our heads, if we are to go into hemp production, there is the feeling that ganja production is going to increase. Once production increases, export is going to increase. Export to where? The United States." For his part, Lowe, founder of the R&D Institute who has recommended the establishment of a carefully managed medical marijuana centre in Jamaica, stressed that there was need for the Government to intervene with a managed development and utilisation of the resources of marijuana. Lowe, a former permanent secretary, acknowledged that a government minister would not be in a position to unilaterally make a decree on the use of the weed as Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson did with the smoking regulations. Time for action However, he stressed it was time for the Government to act with dispatch in relation to making use of the medicinal component that could usher Jamaica on to the next plain in a variety of ways. "One of the relevant ministers needs to consult, then put together and take the matter to Cabinet," said Lowe. "I think Jamaica has a clear leadership role in medical marijuana. I am calling for the Government as well as the Opposition to look at the issue in giving leadership and getting this very important area looked at and acted on," he added. Dr Ethan Nadelmann, founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a US organisation promoting alternatives to the war on drugs, suggested that Jamaica's political leaders need not fear as the international climate is changing. "The discouragement that was offered many years ago may not be offered today," said Nadelmann. "Many who were afraid to speak on the issue many years ago, will be less afraid today." He added: "I think that we are no longer in danger of being threatened by decertification, with states in the US being able to achieve the status of full legalisation without interference, and Latin American partners going in that direction ... ." [email protected]
Highlights from Editors' forum on marijuana
Lorne: "For the Government to see ganja as part of the economic security that can be derived by the country, they must see as we do, that ganja can give you much more money than we borrowed from the International Monetary Fund."
Lowe: I think Jamaica has a clear leadership role in medical marijuana. I am calling for the Government as well as the Opposition to look at the issue in giving leadership and getting this very important area looked at and acted on.
Chang: "Are we in Jamaica going to sit idly by and see (go to waste) something that is a natural fit for Brand Jamaica - culturally, historically, economically - that is a natural fit to our tourism, especially our small and medium-sized hotels and small farmers (as well as) add serious tax revenues to Government and serious returns in investment to private capital?"
Nadelmann: "I think that we are no longer in danger of being threatened by decertification, with states in the US being able to achieve the status of full legalisation without interference, and Latin American partners going in that direction."
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wid you today and re-start the War of the Roses so watch who you a laugh aftah.
How irresponsible? Anybody who would express that POV must be smoking Whacky Tabacky fi true. 
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