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Police crackdown drives...WEED PRICE UP
Pressure from the security forces in recent times has driven up the price for marijuana, THE [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]WEEKEND[/COLOR][/COLOR] STAR has learnt.
Persons from a number of inner-city communities who use the illicit drug say they now have to be paying more for less of the commodity.
"Yes di weed man dem all start push up dem price ... Dem a complain seh weed scarce cause di police dem deh pon road so much. If things nuh go back to normal mi ago stop smoke weed," Ricky Poocha* 22-year-old man of Fletcher's Land in central Kingston said.
In explaining how much the price for ganja has gone up, its users say a small parcel which normally costs $50 is now being sold for $100.
"If a suh di price ago stay, den it mean seh weed get real expensive cause yu only ago get one spliff from di bag weh dem a sell fi $100 now suh is $100 fi one spliff, dat dear man," Ricky Pooch said.
One seller of the drug from Mountain View in east Kingston explained that in recent months persons who he sources marijuana from say they have to be taking more risks in transporting it and as such they have to raise their prices. "Price raise pon me suh mi haffi raise di price weh me sell it fah ... A jus' business," the man simply said.
When THE WEEKEND STAR made checks with a source from St Elizabeth who is involved in the illegal farming, he gave the same arguments put forward by buyers and sellers in inner-city communities.
"Wi haffi a tek extra care di past few months now. Di police and soldier dem a go hard pon di road suh wi affi a move wid caution ... Plus wi haffi cut back pon di amount weh wi send a town so when dat amount reach u know seh a first come, first serve. A jus like any other item weh regular people would a buy, if it scarce and in demand price ago go up," he explained. Several police sources say they have heard of the situation while others from the Narcotics division say they have no interest in the price of the illegal drug, but are more concerned about nabbing the players in the game. "It is still our duty to get these persons involved in the drug trade and bring them to justice. We don't care how hard it is for them to get drugs, it is supposed to be hard, that's the atmosphere we the police are supposed to create, one which hinders the buying and selling of illicit drugs," a senior officer told THE WEEKEND STAR.
Pressure from the security forces in recent times has driven up the price for marijuana, THE [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]WEEKEND[/COLOR][/COLOR] STAR has learnt.
Persons from a number of inner-city communities who use the illicit drug say they now have to be paying more for less of the commodity.
"Yes di weed man dem all start push up dem price ... Dem a complain seh weed scarce cause di police dem deh pon road so much. If things nuh go back to normal mi ago stop smoke weed," Ricky Poocha* 22-year-old man of Fletcher's Land in central Kingston said.
In explaining how much the price for ganja has gone up, its users say a small parcel which normally costs $50 is now being sold for $100.
"If a suh di price ago stay, den it mean seh weed get real expensive cause yu only ago get one spliff from di bag weh dem a sell fi $100 now suh is $100 fi one spliff, dat dear man," Ricky Pooch said.
One seller of the drug from Mountain View in east Kingston explained that in recent months persons who he sources marijuana from say they have to be taking more risks in transporting it and as such they have to raise their prices. "Price raise pon me suh mi haffi raise di price weh me sell it fah ... A jus' business," the man simply said.
When THE WEEKEND STAR made checks with a source from St Elizabeth who is involved in the illegal farming, he gave the same arguments put forward by buyers and sellers in inner-city communities.
"Wi haffi a tek extra care di past few months now. Di police and soldier dem a go hard pon di road suh wi affi a move wid caution ... Plus wi haffi cut back pon di amount weh wi send a town so when dat amount reach u know seh a first come, first serve. A jus like any other item weh regular people would a buy, if it scarce and in demand price ago go up," he explained. Several police sources say they have heard of the situation while others from the Narcotics division say they have no interest in the price of the illegal drug, but are more concerned about nabbing the players in the game. "It is still our duty to get these persons involved in the drug trade and bring them to justice. We don't care how hard it is for them to get drugs, it is supposed to be hard, that's the atmosphere we the police are supposed to create, one which hinders the buying and selling of illicit drugs," a senior officer told THE WEEKEND STAR.