Babylon economist endorses Jamaicas decriminalization

[Sir X]

But ponders legalization

Reform proposals have been knocking around for some time: a National Commission on Ganja recommended decriminalisation in 2001. But helped by moves towards legalisation in Uruguay and decriminalisation in the United States, momentum has been growing. A Cannabis Future Growers and Producers Association was launched last month, and a commercial company to support medical marijuana in December.

Selling for less than five dollars an ounce, ganja has a long history in Jamaica, going all the way back to nineteenth-century Indian immigrants. Cultivation and import have been illegal since 1913, but everyone’s granny remembers when the herb was quite openly on sale as a cure-all. Some of the early work on medicinal uses for marijuana was done in Jamaica in the 1970s and 1980s.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/ameri...ijuana-jamaica

[Rockman]

Fast movement is needed on this proposal,it is a minor step,eradication continues....
Let us get to the issue of unregistered growers,this is where worthwhile developments will happen.

[Sir X]

Its a good step funny how babylon can make the priority link to crime ,decriminalization still serves a powerful criminal class.Legalization is the obvious practical way to see real benefits of ganja in Jamaica.