Jamaica legalizes Marijuana AKA Weed

Jamaica legalizes Marijuana AKA Weed

On Tuesday, Jamaica, passed a law legalizing possession of small amounts of the leaf it calls ganja. The new law makes possession of small quantities of weed non offensive thereby not resulting to arrest...

“Ganja law gets green light,” the Jamaican Observer said in its online version.
Minister of National Security Peter Bunting said

“To describe this Bill’s development as elephantine, is to label it in euphemistic terms since the Parliamentary deliberations on it commenced as far back as 38 years ago,” he said in a statement.

“It eliminates an unnecessary source of friction between police and citizens, and ensures that our young people are not gratuitously shackled with criminal records.”

It allows  the use of marijuana for religious, medical, scientific, and therapeutic purposes.
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“It is significant because it begins to correct decades of criminalizing tens of thousands of Jamaicans, mostly poor young black males, for possession of a little ‘spliff’,” Bunting said.

“This progressive legislation also begins to correct the victimization of our Rastafarian brethren which started in colonial times and continued after Independence,” he added.

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