Jamaica: Government Considering Marijuana Legalization, Official Says
The Jamaican government is considering whether to legalize or decriminalize marijuana as part of possible changes to the island nation's drug laws, an official told the Associated Press last Friday. The herb is revered by Jamaica's Rastafarians and widely consumed, grown, and trafficked in the Caribbean nation.
A seven-member government commission has been researching drug law reforms. Some Jamaican law enforcement officials have complained that marijuana cases clog the courts and jails.
"We have discussed it, and we are preparing a report to present to the prime minister," said Deputy Prime Minister Kenneth Baugh.
It wouldn't be the first time. A blue ribbon commission recommended in 2001 that the personal and religious use of marijuana be decriminalized, but lawmakers have failed to act since then, at least in part out of fears that the US would impose economic sanctions if they did. In 2003, the government said a decrim bill was coming soon, but five years later, we're still waiting.
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Comment posted by Anonymous on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 2:37amman, this drug war is one of the largest ways to remove somebody's civil rights. Don't try to tell me that i have no right to intoxicate myself with WHATEVER I want to! If i want to get messed up, let me do so. But don't make me use the legal drugs.....they have lasting effects...not the one I want to use. this is a fraud and a lie to the American people. The government says that we are keeping hard drugs off of the street...but they fly in those same hard drugs. The CIA flys them into MENA, ARKANSAS! Look it up....don't believe my word. They use that money to fund different "black" projects.
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Comment posted by Anonymous on Fri, 03/14/2008 - 10:10pmMy America is the biggest terrourist in the world because of the lies of the drug war. We need to get out of the dope business with our cops altogether. the pharmaceutical corps are poisoning us to death for fantastic money and we can not hear the truth about what i just said for all the lying flack.
Apartied south America had far fewer blacks in prison than America does for dope. The dope war is a total failure except for the pensioners who worked to achieve it's non results and got paid so over well. The statistics of 1.3% were there in 1914 and they are there right now. The durg war is a fraud.