DLP, UWP talk marijuana legalization

Marijuana is illegal in Dominica

The controversial issue of legalizing marijuana in Dominica and its potential impact on the economy have been thrust into the spotlight again with the two major political parties giving their separate opinions on the matter.

The United Workers Party (UWP) is calling for urgent action by parliament to legalize the illegal herb while the Dominica Labour Party (DLP) says now is the time for serious discussion on it.

“The whole world is debating marijuana whether it is for medical purposes, whether it is for religious purposes,” Deputy Prime Minister, Reginald Austrie said recently. “Are we going to remain in our little hole here and afraid to talk marijuana?”

He said it is a “discussion we need to have.”

“We need to debate, we need to talk about it,” he noted.

Austrie said the issue is being discussed in St. Vincent and CARICOM has taken a decision “to talk about it.”

“So why are we not talking about it more in Dominica?” he stated. “That is the question. Are we prepared as a country to begin to talk about it?”

Austrie pointed out that whatever decision is taken on the issue is another matter but “you can only make a decision after discussion.”

“So let us start with the discussion and we will see where the discussion is going and if the discussion is let’s end that talk about marijuana, we will end it,” he said. “If the talk is we continue the discussion until some decisions are taken in that regard.”

Austrie said he is not encouraging people to use or sell the substance but “if we can grow it for medicinal purposes, the guys can come down here, they can buy it, we can package it, we can sell it, let us have that discussion on those subject matters.”

Political Leader of the UWP, Lennox Linton said the industry is “a multi-billion dollar medicinal and wellness products industry” that “is expanding by leaps and bounds around the globe using extracts of hemp – a plant that has been produced in Dominica for decades.”

“We, therefore, need to move speedily and purposefully claim a worthwhile share of that growing business before it is too late,” he stated.

Linton was in the US recently where the UWP said he was discussing “the growth potential of the market for hemp-based products with leading industry players.”

Linton believes Dominica must get on board to take advantage of the increasing opportunities for job creation, foreign exchange earnings, and a healthier nation.

He said the availability and affordability of hemp-based medicinal and wellness products will significantly reduce the incidence of
chronic non-communicable diseases and thereby lead to a healthier nation.

Linton wants both sides of Parliament to host “a National Consultation of all stakeholders and civil society organizations before the 2018/2019 National Budget, to discuss and agree what needs to be done urgently to secure Dominica’s place in the global hemp industry.”

Ongoing debate

The issue of marijuana legalization has been heavily discussed in Dominica over the years but no solid action has been taken on it.

In December 2106, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said the government would seriously consider medical marijuana in 2017 with a ‘structured’ and ‘informed dialogue.’

In July 2016, now “independent” Parliamentary Representative for the Roseau Central Constituency, Joseph Isaac stated that it was time for officials to seriously consider the decriminalization of marijuana, and expressed his willingness to “lead the mission” towards this objective.

In 2014, Skerrit revealed plans to review and perhaps alter Dominica’s marijuana laws, with the view to lifting some restrictions. However, he emphasized that the government was not prepared to lift the ban on the use of the herb completely.

In 2012, Attorney General, Levi Peter, made it clear that the drug would not soon be legalized, stating that, “Marijuana will continue to be an illegal substance in Dominica in the foreseeable future.”

Attorneys Henry Shillingford and Tiyani Behanzin have also called for legalizing marijuana in Dominica.

Marijuana has been classified as a ‘Class B’ drug in Dominica meaning that it is illegal to possess, cultivate, or sell the substance.

Copyright 2012 Dominica News Online, DURAVISION INC. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or distributed.

Disclaimer: The comments posted do not necessarily reflect the views of DominicaNewsOnline.com and its parent company or any individual staff member. All comments are posted subject to approval by DominicaNewsOnline.com. We never censor based on political or ideological points of view, but we do try to maintain a sensible balance between free speech and responsible moderating.

We will delete comments that:

  • contain any material which violates or infringes the rights of any person, are defamatory or harassing or are purely ad hominem attacks
  • a reasonable person would consider abusive or profane
  • contain material which violates or encourages others to violate any applicable law
  • promote prejudice or prejudicial hatred of any kind
  • refer to people arrested or charged with a crime as though they had been found guilty
  • contain links to "chain letters", pornographic or obscene movies or graphic images
  • are off-topic and/or excessively long

See our full comment/user policy/agreement.

58 Comments

  1. Analysis
    November 11, 2018

    Legalize it.. It’ll help financially..what We need more than anything else this time, financial investment

  2. Farmers cry
    June 6, 2018

    Why not create a market out Dr to sell our locally grown food why that for us to talk about

  3. Affa
    June 6, 2018

    Just because you don’t smoke it doesn’t mean you make it illegal. They legalized it in Colorado and no problems with kids smoking nor smoke all over the place like you fear in Dominica. We have known for a long time that smoking it is good for eye pressure/glaucoma etc etc. The misery citizens are subjected to with jail time away from their families and raising their children need to stop. It’s more than just religious or medical. Skeritt, just simply LEGALIZE marijuana. Then let businesses spring up out of the legalization. Plain and simple LEGALIZE marijuana.

  4. Affa
    June 5, 2018

    OK down boys down. Winston and Shaka you are both making valid varfiable points. The Hearst hemp era even Dupont were heavy competing players wanting to dominate fabrics market in favor of synthetics especially ropes to tie down big ships. Assisted by political heavy hitters that came up with the riffer madness achitects along totally racial lines. In movies they portrayed Mexicans and blacks as using Marijuana in raping white women who jumped out of buildings after smoking it. That sealed the total outrage resulting in total federal ban, eventually tying U.S aid to action on marijuana ban. But, in Dominica it’s also the misery that this ban subjects our citizens to. The jailing of our young men coupled with heavy fines inflicting pain on whole families to where many men are not around to help raise our children and the guilt faced by many police officers and judges who claim their hands are tired during sentencing etc etc …all for the sake of some marijuana.

  5. langlou
    June 5, 2018

    why are we fighting against this move… the only illegality i see is smoking marijuana…. it has many.beneficial properties….. the Mahaut MP needs ti stop thinking as a brain washed cop and do some research on marijuana…
    i know the guy who is part of the business in Colorado and i know the products… this could be our banana. coco coffee copra and DCP in one.
    … domonicans need to READ more especially blackmoore.
    thanks u austrie and Lennox for your honesty on the subject

  6. Daryl joseph
    June 5, 2018

    For those missing the point, as an investor if I should build a manufacturing plant to sell on the whole sale level it will be sold to companies whom already have a contract to sell to hospitals. It is not an investment for retail use or middle man sale it has to be done direct, but the hindrance is the government says it is illegal. There are two processing plants 1 in West haven and the other in Milford, there only complaint is they can’t keep up with demand.
    The truth is building a couple plants on the island makes more profitable sense than building a hotel

  7. Music Producer
    June 5, 2018

    Legal does not mean “right” illegal does not mean “wrong!

  8. June 5, 2018

    Slowly but surly they are getting there…It will surly take it’s place in society and more will…The world is not getting any better and those that expect that …go on dreaming…
    Nice one…

  9. One of a kind
    June 5, 2018

    Lenox if you make this happen and you’re responsible legalizing this, you will win next election

  10. Winston Warrington
    June 4, 2018

    @Shaka, I said hemp was banned over 100 years ago and marijuana by extension was known as hemp also. What you are quoting is that the distinction was clarified and cannabis identified as the prohibited drug. Hemp is back in use legally.

    • Shaka Zulu
      June 5, 2018

      You making absolutely no sense in your explanation. Neither did i say it had anything to do with Mexico. Keep on reading. The discussion is about marijuana use you talking about hemp for textile over 100 years ago. Keep pn reading you will learn some more.

  11. One of a kind
    June 4, 2018

    What’s all the negativity about???? You all jack***** don’t realize if DLP OR UWP makes this legal this will bring money into the country??
    Some people say it’s so wrong….blasted 2nd hand smoke is deadly yet cigarettes are legal! Stop you hypocrisy.

  12. Black Panther
    June 4, 2018

    Well legalize it under the FALSE pretense of medical use when, in truth, it is SOCIAL use these advocates really want, to make more of our people DOH-TISH and unproductive!

    • Annon
      June 6, 2018

      Like alcohol that you enjoy recreational, are you now DOH-TISH and unproductive? No doubt some will abuse it but I’m sure you’ll agree possession should not be illegal.

  13. RastarMarn
    June 4, 2018

    Garçon there no need to be no discussion!!!
    Hemp is the next Banana-like Crop to save the Dominican economy!!!

    RastaMarn been preaching that for years now in this forum and DNO been blocking RastarMarn’s posts,,,

    Allyou can do whatever allyou want with allyou legislative pens but one thing to know Hemp and its products is way more valuable that Cannabis itself alone,,,

    While Cannabis is used medicinally and spiritually Hemp is a more Wholistic strain to deal with which can be utilized in countless ways,,,

    The discussion that needs be entertained is to talk about “Hemp” and an economy based mechanism to produce Hemp products, not only nationally or regionally but internationally,,,

    There must first of all be the mass educational drive to infiltrate the minds of all involved the difference between Hemp and its products and Cannabis and its Cannabinoids medicinal and recreational attributes,,,

  14. mine
    June 4, 2018

    You all want to mess up people’s children with this legalization, if it was that good why some became Parro.

    • RastarMarn
      June 4, 2018

      Stop allyou foolishness and start knowing the truth and do allyou own research,,,

      Them Canadians have been producing Hemp products for how long now,,,

      Them Chinese have been producing Hemp and Cultivating hemp for eons,,,

      Stay there waiting on the tourist ship to come bring a few people to buy little trinkets nuh while them Chinese coming there and buy up Dominica!!!

      Garcon no children will be affect all needs be done is to educate and inform the youths!!!

    • One of a kind
      June 4, 2018

      If children are stupid enough to get messed then they are stupid. Simple

    • Hector Marie
      June 5, 2018

      Mine I have to agree with you what we are going to see in D A if and when the dope is legalized is more young men sitting by the road doing nothing but smoke the dope . I have never smoked that and never will but working with people who do I can tell you they find themselves living in another world . Plain and simple as bad as it is in Dominica now that would be the end . dope heads evert where .

      • The Analysis
        November 11, 2018

        Hector & mine y’all need to chil with all that b.s. nonna y’all know actual facts,
        The reason why there are parros out there is because they are on crack and/or cocaine (or was already mentally I’ll)
        When they can’t afford that, they resort to cannabis which is a lot more accessible.
        When people like y’all who are uneducated on that matter, walk pass a Parro/dope head
        N see them smoking weed you assume ohh look what the weed has done to them.. I’m sure they smoke cigs too! Why dont yall blame cigarettes then!! There isnt any harmful or brain damaging substances in cannabis. Try research instead of word of mouth then make some valid points.
        1 out of every 10 young men in the street life use Coke!! In D.A 1 out of ever 15 young men in
        Smoke weed.. Yet yu can’t find a Parro that only smoked marijuana!! Hmm.

  15. Man bite dogs
    June 4, 2018

    To be honest, I sometimes feel ashamed to be a black man because of their attitudes towards life, every other nations and parents rich and poor trying hard to give their children a better chance of education, and the black man like a dirt dog drifting from town to villages and has nothing to offer, apart from talking Marijuana Legalisation and drinking Rum, when things goes wrong it’s the white man or the government fault never their own fault, when ever i see men in the Caribbean on my travels 30 to 50 years old leaving at home though out the Caribbean makes me sick after so-called 200 years of freedom, I don’t seat and ask God for his help i have always try helping myself otherwise I will never have anything no god can help me but myself. Forget about dope and move forward people.

    • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
      June 6, 2018

      Man bite Dog, you are not a very intelligent person, you think you are making sense, but in this one all I see is your stupidity! Anybody who does not believe in God as far as I am concern is a darn fool.

      Believe it or not you cannot provide anything for yourself, anything you have is provided by a higher power! You have absolutely no power not even over one strand of hair on your head. You cannot cannot control the oxygen you breath! 

      If you do not believe me, try holding your breath for a while and see how long you can hold it, even that you cannot control, but the day will come when it will simply be taken away from you; and you will not know when because that is the day you will be a dead man!

      That breath you breath belongs to the God you do not know exists!

      Now I detest the idea that the UWP want the nation to become drug addicted.

  16. Faceup
    June 4, 2018

    Discuss Discuss man just legalize it. We are already discussing it since four years ago at election time. And now?? Elections are soon here again and now this ??? :lol:

  17. June 4, 2018

    Lennox Linton leads and others follow
    18 years of Skerrit and his gang sitting on their brains, they couldn’t think that far :-D :-D

  18. Man bite dogs
    June 4, 2018

    Hold on a minute, For the the pass 15 to 18 years i though marijuana was already legalised through out the workers idiotic party? Not being funny but this strange lots of people always talking rubbish and high on dope!!!!!

    • Franky
      June 4, 2018

      You this dirty dog bitter.. sacray malfeteh. Mal boo hooe ..go and bite them old dogs in roseau..

  19. Lenpro
    June 4, 2018

    If Dominicans are blatantly entering farmers hard working farms and stealing what’s not theirs in disrespectful manners, how will it be different farming marijuana? Dominica would become the killing fields of the Caribbean. Dominica do not have serious law and order it’s citizens respect to even think of introducing the legalization of marijuana. Serious legislation on growing pot must be implemented on who are license to grow and government involvement to ensure contracts and signed with outside medical companies to by such products. I personally thinks these are political gain comments. The focus should be housing, roads and highways, medical facilities, school repairing, power and light a good airport port terminal in Roseau and Portsmouth and more.

    • Lenpro
      June 4, 2018

      It’s just sounding ridiculously foolish when Dominicans politicians are considering legalizing and farming pot. While they are building hotels with no airport to fly in visitors, and their citizens feel no shame walking to their beaches to spread their cracks and drop their feces, while their roads and highways is the worst in the Caribbean, while there are no penalty to it’s citizens dumping their trash anywhere in their city, when major hospital building looks like something you would see in a third world country, they are thinking of legalizing marijuana. Will Dominica ever move forward? Only time will tell.

  20. Jonathan Y St Jean
    June 4, 2018

    It’s about time. U W P has foresight in that some years ago it put legalization of marijuana on the front burner, whilst the dreamy Labour party is only now coming to the with their call for a national discuss on the subject. Labour first said we don’t need an international airport yet now every month Skerritt is promising one now. This dreamy approach to development has kept the country back. I hope that legalization of this natural plant and it’s by-products will become a reality sooner rather than later. It’s a pity that those who continuously stood out and advocated for the weed were ostracized and punished and when it will becomes legal, those who preached against it will be the first to jump in and capitalize on the new green gold. I hope the government reserves some space for the rasta community to make some money from the holy herb too

  21. UDOHREADYET
    June 4, 2018

    I agree hemp as a raw material allows Dominica to manufacture hundreds of product fo internal use and export.
    It grows quickly, if very sturdy, very profitable and can replace with better quality alot of the products we import.
    Medicinal Marijuana is slightly different in that is has to be strongly regulated and taxed and should at least be prescribed by a medical doctor or Naturopathic doctor. there should be basic maximum amounts that are legal for personal use. Young men and women with records that fall within those small amounts, should be expunged and the agriculture and tourism industry should take a large part of the permitted growers, the permitted distributors and the Tourism and businesses with the oversight of the government, should control the Marketing narrative concerning intended use, medical benefits, safety, security and effects to avoid external parties from sending mixed messages. Like alcohol there should be a legal age for consumption, driving under influence

  22. zandoli
    June 4, 2018

    Keep on talking and discussing. That is all you guys are good at.

    Canada is far head of most nations in the field of medical marijuana. Recreational use becomes legal this summer. A lot of investor money has been pouring into the industry so get a stranglehold on medical marijuana. Keep talking and discussing. When you guys are finished, there will be nothing left for you.

    Instead of talking among yourselves, you should be getting to know the money people who can bankroll the industry. If you think you are going to get any share of the market by letting Joe Farmer cultivate a few trees here and there and people smoking herb, you will get nothing out of this. This is big business and if you want to play in that sandbox, you had better understand who the major players are and get them to put serious money into the local industry.

  23. Justice
    June 4, 2018

    Total garbage. What the hell are our politicians are smoking. Are you guys sick?
    Marijuana legalization is just so wrong. This herb does not contain the healing
    benefits that scientists made us believe. Marijuana should be totally eradicated.

    • viewsexpressed
      June 4, 2018

      Justice, I feel your passion. However, I advice you to analyse clearly the bigger picture. I am not one who smokes marijuana, never will. Also, the intake of marijuana smoking and its use as a herbal tea is on going and we just cant stop it.
      We have more serious open activities going on Domininca, for example Nanny (I love this one), all brands of cigarettes, alcohol, Za`id etc. Etc…etc. Ganja, other name used, is also used as a herbal tea. Should most of those be banned ASAP like tomorrow call a debate in parliament.?
      All professionals from all highly paid and recognised professions are either heavy smokers, drinkers of legal and illegal drinks ad drugs.
      I was and I am extremely impressed with the words and presentation of Hon. Linton, leader of the Opposition UWP on this subject. Well articulated, educated all, and spoke like the mature person and politician that he is. This tells us that Hon Linton is an intellectual, he analyses, respected and listens. Addresses us well,…

      • Love U more
        June 4, 2018

        Lenox Linton you seemed to be only person praising yourself. You are so full of hot air it’s pitiful. Views Expelled.

    • Law and Order
      June 4, 2018

      Total nonsense.., what the hell are you drinking!!!???! Are you mad? Alcohol legalisation is just so WRONG…The booze does not make us happy as the scientists say. Alcohol should be completely taken off the face of the earth.

    • Injustice
      June 4, 2018

      From da way u speak i know you a PAGAN fighting against the same god you should praise creations.

    • One of a kind
      June 4, 2018

      If you’re gonna eradicate marijuana…do the same for cigarettes and alcohol..too much alcohol will destroy the liver and 2nd hand smoke is bad…
      Stop being a hypocrite just because DLP is talking about it

    • Karl Orndem
      June 5, 2018

      Honorables of the house, i am STILL waiting on the structured debate/discussion proposed by the PM before the last election on the legalization of the herb. LAst election it was thrown on the table as it is being done so again today. in truth it is already used like it is legal. so legalizite or not, it will still continue to used and who dont like it, well, …..(fill in the dots)

  24. weedDogg
    June 4, 2018

    Total nonsense, decriminalization i agree. Our society doesn’t have the structures and that cannot be a way out for the young men. I’m a smoker and that will just throw of such a small society, that’s already misguided. 8)

  25. Shaka Zulu
    June 4, 2018

    So long we have been on here asking to decriminalize marijuana. Making a man a criminal for one weed has been absolutely ridiculous. Marijuana was made illegal by US because it was used by Mexicans and with racist intentions to make non whites criminals. I don’t do drugs but have seen the scientific evidence that have been out there fore years. Israeli scientists have been researching for decades, federal government have been growing and researching for years. For too long we have been dictated to on avocados coconuts and all the other healthy stuff our grand parents used to live long healthy lives. The Caribbean should have been leading the scientific research and development through UWI on canabis, coconut oil and bi products, hurricane ressilliance, marine biology, waste recycling and a whole list. We keep depending on these countries that only have one intention. Keep us as beggars. We need greater science based R&D in our society. We cannot advance in this day and age if we

    • Shaka Zulu
      June 4, 2018

      continue to see ourselves as incapable. Survival is the key to innovation. Our people need to start using the scientific knowledge coupled with local evidence and some research and development of the countless herbal resources for health and beauty. It is about time we get this slavery dependency mindset out of our system. The rest of the world is talking about space exploration we still here talking about soucoyant and obeah.

      • Winston Warrington
        June 4, 2018

        Why don’t you at least make the effort to base your contribution on verifiable data. Research into marijuana cultivation has been a scientific undertaking by Jamaican agronomists for several years. In the process they have experimented with various growth nutrients and increased the THC content significantly. The banning of marijuana in the US. was political. Commercial hemp which is related but confused with marijuana was used in the production of cloth and paper products presented competition for the Hearst newspaper Corporation who owned thousands of acres of forest. They persuaded the politicians to ban the use of hemp and by extension marijuana. This occurred over 100 years ago and the Fedetal laws are still on the books. Efforts to repeal the law have met staunch resistance because of marijuana use as a drug. This has nothing to do with Mexico.

      • Shaka Zulu
        June 4, 2018

        @ Winston: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_history_of_cannabis_in_the_United_States
        Cannabis was officially outlawed for any use (medical included) with the passage of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) of 1970. That was not a hundred years ago. I just looked this up so you could see i was not making up stuff. Why is Jamaica not leadin g the world markets on cannabis products. The federal government cannot stop a country from legalizing weed as long as the marijuana is not shipped into the US. All they had to do is use it to market tourist let those who use for rec come in. Our politicians in the Caribbean too dumb and as i said before have the slavery dependency mentality. Lennox linton should not have to go Colorado. A trip to Jamaica would have been better. I dont see jamaica research data. Your account of marijuana ban in some states in US have some facts but not complete picture. Keep on reading and then come back talk to me.

      • Shaka Zulu
        June 4, 2018

        @winston i did not just read that on. Wikipedia for your info. LSD was legal in US cocain was legal in the US. Guess what LSD is still used and market differently with interesting names. All that was done is to change the name and market as a drug for attention disorders. Today countless students use to get ahead in college because of its ability to keep individuals hyperfocus. Coca leaves have been chewed in Columbia for centuries before someone decide to concentrate the chemicals. Americans and thier insatiable appetite for drugs fuel its criminalization. There are medicine you take that are deadlier than banned substances. Our forefathers used herbal medicine that we all know worked by now all these should have been scientifically researched used and market by us and not wait when massa come and exploit for us to jump on bandwagon and act like idiots.

  26. MichealNJ
    June 4, 2018

    We should have legalized marijuana years ago when Mr Bernard Shaw shared in the Chronicle the benefits. Now that the entire metropolitan mega rich countries are capitalizing on the same cannabis , we as the following low minded people want to jump on the band wagon. Stop all the talking and take action

  27. Grace
    June 4, 2018

    Legalize it and I’ll vote LABOUR :-D

  28. Zor Sot
    June 4, 2018

    In the business world there is a saying, either you create the wave, ride the wave or try to catch up with the wave…. now the best decision to truly be considered as a savvy business man and which guarantees success is creating the wave, the second is riding that wave, trying to catch up with that wave is not even an option…. as by that time you catch up, the market is saturated and much more funding is now needed to penetrate that saturated market.

    All this to say….. lets ride the wave…. develop a strong natural wellness and health tourism product offering and tie it into Marijuana. I can assure you Dominica would be making ground breaking strides in the tourism industry………………………
    but this will not be done, because Skerrit needs the economy to remain in the dire situation it is in to play saviour, keeping the people dependent on him.

    • LifeandDeath
      June 4, 2018

      We’re are of one mind as Regards your statement on combining Tourism, Natural Wellness and using the Marijuana craze as a big draw..and you’re absolutely on point regarding the current Megalomaniac leader that Dominica suffers from. In 18 years he has made more people dependent on Gov’t as addicts on Heroin…Bite me!!..Dominicans are sick to be perpetuating and enabling this suffering.

  29. Rock
    June 4, 2018

    Workersssssssss! !!!!!!!!! Workersssssssss!!!!!! We taking our country back from this lazy greedy incompetent dirty wicked currupt devilish cult free mason illuminati freaks… call the election let us vote all you out!! Dissolve parliarment … call it in december

  30. Channel 1
    June 4, 2018

    Folks, there are covert satanic forces at play here with dark agendas disguised under the banner of “Progressive Enlightenment of Society”.

    Mr Linton, please steer the UWP away from this nonsense of marijuana legalization.

    How can a people justify the legalization of that drug when we witness daily how that drug is zombifying people especially the youth on the block? Aren’t we concerned that marijuana use eventually leads its to users to engage in more powerful psychoactive drugs such as cocaine?

    DO NOT LEGALIZE MARIJUANA IN DOMINICA!!!! Look at what is currently happening in Colorado after they legalized marijuana a few years ago.

    There already exists numerous medications for all dem sickness people claim marijuana cures.

    What next? Legalize cocaine because it is a naturally occurring compound obtained from the naturally growing coca plant?

    UWP, please focus on more urgent issues in Dominica rather than this absolute rubbish of marijuana legalization.

    • Davido
      June 4, 2018

      The only ‘dark agenda’ is the abyss in your head.

    • Daryl joseph
      June 4, 2018

      So channel 1 why not legalized marijuana for export only? We keep talking do nothing and expect growth. Tell me where is the next big plan for job creation.
      Tourism great. Where are the 6 to 8 thousand people you need per day to give you cash flow. How many jets are landing daily paying landing fees? How did we replace revenue lost when the school left. We can pray as much as we want but without adjusting with time we will always be last.

      • Channel 1
        June 4, 2018

        @Daryl joseph – Legalize marijuana for export only? So in other words, it doesn’t matter if we export a product which we know will destroy the persons of another country……once we making money out of it?

    • viewsexpressed
      June 4, 2018

      Channel 1, think of the bigger picture. We need to find a way to manage this We have similar dangerous drugs about, alcohol, cigarettes, etc etc…..that we consume. So tell me what is the difference. Smoking of all these cant stop, it is inly tax payers money spent on taking them to court, paying states lawyers and into prison where we ay for their services, food, leisure,, doctor etc. Lets objectively think about this and let us discuss professionally with a heart.

      Lets think in harmony and peacefully how best to address this matter and others.
      Jah Guide…Guidance Friends

      • Channel 1
        June 4, 2018

        @viewsexpressed – Uuummm, what exactly is this bigger picture I am supposed to think about or conjure up in my mind?

        Does that picture include images of persons ripped-out-of their minds stoned high on marijuana? By the way, what sickness do those marijuana smokers on the block have? Asthma? If they are not ill, why then are they smoking it?

        I am able to see the bigger picture of folks who having developed tolerance to marijuana graduate to more powerful drugs such as cocaine in search of that elusive ‘high’.

        Society already cannot manage things such as cigarettes and alcohol which are unfortunately ‘legal’, so how can it be wise to further compound the matter by throwing marijuana into the mix?

        What exactly should this objective & professional discourse with a heart you mentioned center around:
        Persons destroying themselves illegally vs Persons destroying themselves legally once the government making money out of their destruction? 8-O 8-O 8-O

  31. derp
    June 4, 2018

    you smell what I’m smelling, more election gimmick, they did the same thing last election…. election is next year btw

    they aren’t going to make any positive moves just false promises as usual and more talk….

  32. Leah
    June 4, 2018

    This article somehow diminishes the UWP contribution and puts it in line with the DLP position, when the truth is that the UWP has clearly taken the lead on this and the DLP, through Reggie, is merely playing catch up.

    In fact it seems that he is only now speaking because Lennox Linton recently took concrete steps to explore the matter and learn of its benefits.

    • viewsexpressed
      June 4, 2018

      Austrie was loud, aggressive, meaningless, desperate and “tou cho tou flam”. That is the nature of the beast, as it is said. ease ignore Austrie and Skerrit and the rest of the failed corrupt Labour Government are weak and immature and in office for too long.. They are useless and clueless.

Post a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

:) :-D :wink: :( 8-O :lol: :-| :cry: 8) :-? :-P :-x :?: :oops: :twisted: :mrgreen: more »

 characters available