|
Cannabis Campaigners' Guide News Database result:
|
|
Jamaica: Forbes sees ganja being 'legalised inevitably'
Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Thursday 25 Apr 2002 POLICE COMMISSIONER Francis Forbes believes that ganja will inevitably be legalised in Jamaica. He told The Gleaner's Editorial Forum on Wednesday that decriminalisation was just a back-door means of legalising the drug which has been illegal in Jamaica since 1913. "I think that no matter what we say, ganja will eventually be legalised. This whole issue about decriminalisation is just the back-door way of legalising ganja. And I think that very soon we really have to make up our minds: is it worth the effort to tackle ganja or cannabis the way that we are doing it now?" The Commissioner pointed out that there was a move, globally, towards legalisation. "And the more you hear the presentation, the more people like myself, you know, have had to step back and really try in a very objective way to look at the problem as it is being presented," he said. Commissioner Forbes said there was a need to expand the recently introduced drug courts, as a theory was being presented at the international level, that it is not the users who are the problem, but the traders, and if users were treated the demand side would be reduced. He said that an example of this was Dutch sidewalk caf=E9s, which sell ganja legally. He said he had been informed that these have been reduced in numbers in recent years "because there just isn't that great demand any longer."
After you have finished reading this article you can click here to go back.
|
This page was created by the Cannabis Campaigners' Guide.
Feel free to link to this page!