Wayne George of Wotten Waven pleaded guilty on Thursday morning of possession of marijuana and was ordered to pay $2,000 by September 11 or spend six months in prison
He will also pay $8,000 by the end of September or spend seven months behind bars on the charge of possession of marijuana with intent to supply. The sentences will run concurrently.
Magistrate Evalina Baptist presided over the proceedings.
According to the facts of the matter, police were patrolling the Fond Baron area on April 14 and intercepted a car with two male occupants. The authorities performed a search and a white plastic bag containing 1,389 grams of cannabis was found on the floor of the car.
When questioned about the content, George responded, “My marijuana for me to smoke I have there.”
Police estimated the substance to have a street value of $3,059.
Before sentencing, Magistrate Baptist heard from defense counsel Peter Alleyne who pleased for leniency. Alleyne pointed out that the defendant was a vegetable farmer in Wotten Waven, gave no problems to the police and had two young children.
The defendant was convicted for a similar offence seven years ago.
What for the stupid people they call cops to see, they do not see, they have people driving drunk, DA has the most alcohol bars in the Caribbean, a set of old untidy rum shops, with no toilet facilities causing people to drink alcohol. THEY SHOULD BAN ALCHOLOL IN THIS PLACE, and the police should stop drininking rum by the court house, when you in court they want you to kneel as if it is church you are , and call the court HONOURABLE, and yet they (police) drinking booze by the said Honourable court, what double standard is that? they want to hold people for stupidness, but when you call them for real emergencies they do not come., they never have transport.
There brains are in their a$$, I think DA, have the most stupid cops in the world, all they can look for too, is for license, and insurance and give tickets, whilst the most of the roads in DA, have holes like the size of swimming pools.
And they just recruiting a set of more damn a@@ess, “so called police here”, they do not patrol the streets at nights, all the “police” in DA do is sleep, drink alcohol and run women, we need to have more security at nights,,,, and to irridicate the murders, thiefs in our society.
Fed – up
Put the man in prison and deny his children his support or charge him $10000.00 doesn’t solve any problem and creates more problems. It’s a senseless sentence in today’s world. While Dominicans are being locked up for marijuana its available in pharmacy’s in the USA some states possession of up to an ounce without a medical permit is less than a misdemeanor like a traffic ticket. Somebody in Dominica must be dumb.
When all that money is paid to the govt what are they going to do with it, how the hell they expect the boy to pay the balance by the end of September, that’s highly ridiculous.sick court, sick govt and sick judge.
Instead a war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me
There are some worrying aspects here in Dominica why is it a 14 years old school boy can find the marijuana dealer, but the police can’t find them or choose not, in my village of st joseph at the back street the kids openly smoke marijunana, the so call the police task force drives pass without saying a thing. up the morne a young 20 year boy sells the drug, one can see young boys going in and out of the house and no one cares, given the health risked posed by the abuse of drugs, the government should tighten the net on unscrupulous drug dealer by seizing their assets.
Look at the state of the people who smoke it.The kids in this village are nolonger lovinging and friendly. they are always high whoever condone them should be ashamed,free those kids.
ALL WHO FIGHT AGAINST MARIJUANA GOING TO BURN JUST LIKE THE JUDGES AND THE AND THE WICKED LAWYERS WHO PUT PEOPLE BEHIND BARS FOR A TREE, THAT IS SO RIDICULOUS THEY DESTROYING PPLE LIVES BECAUSE OF A TREE, IT IS ONLY ILLEGAL BECAUSE THE TOBACCO AND ALCOHOL COMPANIES WANT TO KEEP MAXIMIZING ON THEIR PRODUCTS AND THE SYSTEM IS ALL ABOUT MONEY N DEATH NOT LIFE, FIRE BUN DRUG SQUAD TOO.
You can legally buy and smoke marijuana in Amsterdam, Holland. The brands Colombian , Jamaican, Thai, African and produce from many other countries are available.
Its legal to buy and smoke marijuana in amsterdam. Jamacian colombian african and many other countries produce is available.
….Amsterdam is a controlled environment – and that trade is confined to a small designated area where you can also buy men, women and lady-boys (Jamaican, Colombian, African and many more)…but it still doesn’t make it right
how u can want to hole a man for herb i tell allu aready dem police have red eyes fire burn them jah doh like dat
Wayne must be selling the drugs still or working in a bank some where.
$2000 by the middle of September and $8000 at the end of September.
Somebody will take a jail.
It has been proven over and over again that alcohol is more dangerous than marijuana…Yet the system still has its head up its own *ss…
I’d like the Commissioner to tell us what happens to the marijuana once the case has been settled. I wonder if these drugs ever make it back on the streets. That would be a darn shame.
they burn it your dam fool
Respect for the laws of the land. Marijuana may have medicinal properties, but the best cure to avoid the law, is to leave it and all drugs alone. The truth is, it destroys our young children and our communities.
WUT BOUT ALCOHOL….. DOESN’T IT DESTROY LIVES??? YET PPL GETTING RICH OFF D SALE OF RUM!!! U EVER HEARD OF SOMEONE COMMITTING A CRIME BECAUSE THEY WERE HIGH OFF MARIJUANA??? BUT PPL COMMIT CRIMES ERYDAY, BEING UNDER D INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL.
The truth also is….ALCOHOL destroys our young children and our communities more than anything else
dissenting voices….if u have a prob with the law….go to your government…go to your ministers…go to your legislaters….go to the people who you vote and shout for every 5 years….
dont blame the people who are charged to enforce the laws
The people who are charged should think for themselves
I agree, lets start a serious movement to lobby and pressure politicians to do the sensible thing and at least decriminalize marijuana. It ‘s costing the Gov’t to incacerate and feed people for these periods of time spent in the prison. Marijuana is not creating problems in Dominica, the percecution of marijuana is like throwing money at the wind.
Does the Gov’t have money, or not? This decade has seen a serious influx of cocaine and crack of great magnitude on out streets. Now that’s a serious problem to spend money and law enforcement on. Dominica is known as a gateway for South American catel shipments of serious amounts of coke to other parts of the world. But, since law enforcement is concentrated towards the percecution of Marijuana, they have rendered themselves ineffective in finding or busting coke. But who am I…(don’t answer that)…they won’t listen to me. And they should take heed, this is serious;;;need I say serious one more time? I didn’t think so either.
Another money maker for the govt.
if america say its illegal what u think dominica goin to do,don’t u know dominica is a puppet .a plant from God that he give to the black people and the white man say its illegal and how u have the blacks that putting other blacks in jail for marijuana is the same slavery mentality ,thats the way we where sold for the white man by other blacks
Why you think God would give black people a plant to blow their minds and make them walk on the streets like mad men? Is like He dont like us, man. The plant has it use; but we are too lazy to find the right use for the plant, we so hate ourselves we prefer to use it to blow our minds. Have mercy!
WUT BOUT ALCOHOL?????? NOBODY COMPLAINS BOUT RUM N ALL D PROBLEMS IT CAUSES….. GUESS D GOVERNMENT HAVE SHARES IN D RUM BUSINESS
I do not use marijuana but your response is idiotic. Marijuana does not blow anybody’s mind. Mark My words it is just a matter of time before marijuana like alcohol is legalized with the same restriction like does imposed on alcohol. You should not be drunk on the job so therefore you should not be high on the job either, but on your own time you should be free to do as you please.
For a medicinal plant?
Thank you almighty GOD for this tree, it is unfortunate that my brothers and sisters in the system prefer the money rather than the spiritual gifts it brings. I pray for its abusers and mis-users, they know not what they do.
Jail a man for a plant you created for us to benefit from all whilst taking food from the mouths of his 2 children. Have mercy on them all for they know not what they do.
I shall light a candle for this judge, with as many hearts as she has hardened because of this plant, she deserves a special prayer, for she works tirelessly at enslaving the black man for the old colonial system still in place. Please forgive er O Lord.
If people live by the Law they will not get into this and other types of trouble with the Law. Those who do not live by the Law stand a good chance of being caught and therefore have to pay for the consequences of their action.
By your words you have gravely sinned against God! Your words have given you away. This is including those who gave you thumbs up which you do not deserve. You deserve thumbs down but based on their mentality and godlessness, they gave you credence.
This is the problem with some of people. When others comment wisely, some of them will give thumbs down as if they have no sense in their heads.
Do not use God’s name in vain and for a plant which is highly dangerous to the health and also to the young children.
The First Commandment of God is: I Am the Lord Thy God; Thou Shalt Not Have Strange God’s
Before Me.
The Second Commandment is: Thou Shalt Not Take The Name of The Lord Thy God in vain.
There are good plants and bad/evil ones just as edible food and fruits and non-edible ones. There are docile animals and non-docile ones; those which are edible and which are not. Are you going to question God about them and why He created them and allowed them on this earth?
Marijuana may have its purpose and even health purposes but it is abused and sold on the market for an exorbitant price. The growers know this very well.
The man knew why he grew the marijuana. He is a vegetable grower? What type of vegetable grower is he? Some of them use vegetables to hide their illegal drug-growing and selling.
He should have known better. He has children to feed and so he should be more responsible. He will obviously not be charged for growing vegetables for them to eat which is healthy for them.
Excessive use of marijuana smoked is unhealthy. Surely, he was not growing it mainly for his personal use, to smoke. Who is he deceiving?
It does not matter whether it is legal in certain other countries and that they allow it. I would think that if the growers trade in it without government’s knowledge and do not report the funds, if the government finds out, they will be charged. Conditions are set for growing it and selling it. There are still those who will try to do so illegally.
There are other countries which disallow it. These are correct and for good reasons.
Do not waste your time to light a candle for this judge. It is not lighted in godliness and in good faith. God is displeased with you based on your reasons for doing so.
I would advise you to “Think God” when you make such comments will later return to haunt you and comments condemn you. You are not a smart person and lack spiritual enlightenment.
Cannabis is the world’s oldest known medicine.
The medical use of cannabis dates back to 2000 B.C.
For 4,000 years it was the most commonly prescribed pain reliever.
Cannabis is less toxic than aspirin, and less addictive than coffee.
Natural medicine created by GOD for our use. (Genesis 1:29-31)
In 1978, the federal government established the Compassionate Use Program which provides 300 cannabis cigarettes per month to sick and dying patients.
In 2003, Patent #6630507 “Cannabis as Antioxidants and neuroprotectants” was awarded to the
Department of Health and Human Services.
In 2006, The national Institute of Health released “The Endocannabinoid System as an Emerging Target of Pharmacotherapy”. The Report states that cannabis is effective in treating “mood and anxiety disorders, movement disorders, such as Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease, neuropathic pain, multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injury, to cancer, atherosclerosis, myocardial infraction, stroke, hypertension, glaucoma, obesity/metabolic syndrome as well as osteoporosis, just to name a small yet significant few…
Who stands to benefit most from cannabis prohibition?…..The Pharmaceutical Industry. That’s who!
In 2006, US Pharmaceutical industry revenues were ~289 billion.
Over 7million Americans are abusing prescription drugs each year.
Over 750,000 Americans die each year from prescription drug abuse.
24 million American’s smoke Cannabis each year; 0 die each year from cannabis abuse.
The Pharmaceutical Lobby holds 27 patents of the medicinal use of cannabis. They use these patents to restrict its use and to ensure their profits.
YEA…. BUT SHE EH CONDEMNING D PPL THAT SELLING ALL D RUM…. ESPECIALLY TO MINORS!!
Thank you Truth, Justice, Love, Peace and Unity, you are obviously DNO GOD and have spoken. Thank you also for acting as GOD and telling me how he feels and sees my prayer. Surely you shall receive your just desserts.
God bless you! I hope you and your family had a blessed Good Friday and Easter. Now we are awaiting the following 40 days to Pentecost, The Descent of the Holy Spirit. The Lord is always present in the lives of those who speak the truth. God’s peace be with you.
Let me get that! The street value of the HERB IS 3000 plus and he is fined 8000. There needs to be a referendum on the DECRIMINALIZATION of this plant. Studies have repeatedly shown that the medical benefits of this plant provides benefits that the pharmaceutical companies don’t want revealed.
They would have to kill me before I pay those bastards any money. I would rather do the time. F*#k the police, the judge, the prosecutor, and the wicked babylon system.
u forget the jurors too
dread if the law say the ting illegal what you expect the police, the judge, the prosecutor and the jurors to do.
you seeing the police going after man smoking their tobacco.
you think if tobacco was illegal they would’nt go after it too.
is the laws of the land and the people that pass them you have to curse, not the people that enforcing and passing sentence on based on those laws.
Is people like you that would shoot a police, judge, prosecutor or juror for enforcing what the HIGHER UPS tell them to enforce and feel like you accomplish something.
Oh please, how foolish! If a law was passed to rape all the children on the land starting with yours, wouldn’t you be after the judge, jurors, police and the lot of them. Who feels it knows it. Tobacco and alcohol which are legal kill more people per year than accidents. No one, not one, has died from Marijuana use. The laws are ass backwards, plain and simple. Do your research!
Well, just as they never say someone died of AIDS but of the associated disease, it is the same with Marijuana. It works on something that affects something else that kills you. Many people have died because of marijuana. Those on a high go doing things they would not do normally. Look at the amount of fellas that are killing fellas and other innocent people because of marijuana I dont know which makes them wilder, when they desparate for a spliff or when they have had one, or when they are flogging it on the streets. Like alcohol it is dangerous, If we are talking about God and naturalness, why do that to our brains?
@ stupes,BIG UP.
YEA…. I AGREE WIT THAT! THE LAW ENFORCERS’ JOB IS TO PROTECT N SERVE…. WELL RUM CAUSES MORE DAMAGE THAN MARIJUANA, SO Y DON’T THEY MAKE ALCOHOL ILLEGAL??? AND @ LIFE’S LIKE THAT…. IF YOU’D CARE TO PAY ATTENTION, YOU’S KNOW THAT THERE ARE ALWAYS STATS ON HOW MANY PPL DIE OF AIDS, SO U JUS TLKN OUT UR ARSE!! EVER HEARD OF A MAN BEATING HIS WIFE CUZ HE SMOKE MARIJUANA?? NO… BUT U CONSTANTLY HEAR ABOUT PPL HURTING OTHERS WEN THEY DRUNK!!! AND FOR ERYBODY’S INFORMATION….. MARIJUANA IS A HERB, IT IS NOT CHEMICALLY ALTERED IN ANY WAY, SO THEREFORE IT IS NOT A DRUG!! DRUGS ARE CHEMICALLY ALTERED. SLEEPING PILLS ARE MORE DANGEROUS THAN MARIJUANA.