September 1, 2023
We are ecstatic that another Caribbean country has decided to decriminalise marijuana. This time, the Bahamas will go on a consultative process over the next few months in an attempt to get feedback on its suite of cannabis legislation.
The key part of this legalisation effort is that it is based predominantly on medicinal marijuana, bringing relief to many people who need to have their prescriptions fulfilled for their various ailments. That to us is very noble.
However, the equally important part to this is that the Bahamas government will be decriminalising possession of marijuana for anything less than 30 grams. This is important because it means the “Babylon” will stop picking up young men off of the streets, processing them and giving them criminal records for a “little bit of weed.”
In that vein we scream HALLELUJAH… FREE THEM BOYS! All of them who are locked down or who have criminal records for a tiny joint, set them free.
Criminalising them only created more havoc on the streets, by allowing our young men to be further demoralised and debased and shunned from our society for having a criminal record, further sending them into the stranglehold of criminal gangs and other criminal activity. This should relieve some of the pressure off of the street by minimising the amount of recruits these gangs should have access to.
We hope the consultations go forward with ease and most people see the benefits of legalisation and decriminalisation at the same time.
We are not marijuana users at this magazine. We don’t even drink alcohol, but we understand that the draconian and hard stance against marijuana was hurting more than it was helping.
Free them boys!