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Gambia: Jamaican Baffled As He Glorifies Cannabis

Abdoulie Nyockeh

The Point - Banjul,Gambia

Monday 15 May 2006

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Ras Lynrest, a Jamaican and musician by vocation, has told a
magistrates’ court that he could not understand, no matter how hard he
try, how and why mankind could come up with such stringent laws against
cannabis sativa which, he argued, possesses both nutritional and
medicinal values .Ras enlightened the court that cannabis is sent from
God to man and should be treated as such.

He added that cannabis sativa has a high nutritional value and could be
overwhelmingly useful in curing many ailments.

According to him, it was very strange to learn that possession of
cannabis is a punishable offence.

“How can human beings formulate such laws and impose them on fellow
human beings,” Ras wondered aloud.

But Magistrate Edrisa Mbai, presiding, informed Ras that possession of
cannabis is a punishable offence in The Gambia and enforceable under the
Drug Control Act.

He then sentenced him to a fine of D250,000 ,in default to serve 10
years in prisons for being found in possession of cannabis sativa.

It would be recalled that Ras Lynrest was arrested sometime this year at
the Banjul International Airport in possession of 29kg and 880g of
cannabis .He had throughout his trial maintained his ‘innocence’ of the
offence of trafficking cannabis.

 

 

 

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