Is Gomes Rational ?....Examine this man !

[Sir X]

The pros and cons of the ganja debate have been copiously documented and more evidence of the harmful effects of the drug are coming to light. Some time ago, Dr De La Haye, president of the Psychiatry Association of Jamaica and clinical director of the University Hospital of the West Indies, stated: "Ganja can make you mad, so why take a chance and use it. We do believe that cannabis is playing a role in the level of violence in this country. Cannabis has THC, which brings out aggression in people." While fully supporting the passage to facilitate further research into the use of ganja for medicinal purposes, De La Haye is convinced that making it more accessible to the public for smoking would be courting disaster.

What we hear now is the shrill voice of John Q Public to "free up di weed, do not prosecute innocent spliff smokers through the courts". And the Government, in its innocence, has caved in and is trying to create a legal path to disrupt the current system of adjudication in a simple matter. Simple matter? Yes, because the Drug Courts were invented to provide the same result -- in that a first offender is taken before the Court and given a warning but without a charge, so there is no criminal record. Only hard-core offenders are brought back to the Court and offered a period of rehabilitation and given a charge sheet. It is a sad time when the Government is "bending over backwards" to satisfy the strident demand of illegal smokers, by manipulating the existing law to render it impotent in its present form by substituting a "summons" instead of a charge. No doubt we shall see more of these creative manoeuvres in the future, particularly in relation to financial malfeasance.


http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/colum...ganja_17388668

[Sir X]

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF GANJA USE IN JAMAICA
Ganja is widely used for recreational, medicinal (folk medicine) and religious purposes in Jamaica. The 1990 Carl Stone study among respondents age 15 and over island wide showed 47% in the Metropolitan areas and 43% in the rural areas who had ever used ganja. The usage was higher among males than females but cut across all social, educational and economic groups. In the upper income group 46% of males and 25% of females had tried ganja, the figures for the middle income group were 33% of males and 10% of females, and for the lower income group 52% of males and 18% of females.
Many patients admitted to the psychiatric services on the island report ganja use. For example, approximately 60-80 % of males admitted to the Cornwall Regional Hospital Acute Psychiatric Unit in 1999 gave a history of ganja use, although this was not necessarily the reason for their admission (Abel 2001).


That’s a high % of use that (cut ) across class as high as 52 % and as low as 18 % .All these % are being explained away by Gomes as addiction , that leads to aggressive psychiatric behavior.Isnt that the same theme we find in the criminalization of black youth here in the states. This recent incident in St Louis, isn’t that one of the spins? That this young man high on ganja attacked the police, hence he deserved 6 shots?

Based on Gomes belief Amsterdam and Colorado should have an increase in addiction, psychiatric, aggressive behavior.

Amsterdam hasn’t born that theory to be true, maybe Colorado will. Maybe Ganja has specific properties that only manifest in Africans because the case of white youth acting in the suggestive way towards peace officers in those states are little to none. White youths use it in the same ratio as Africans in the States ,yet we only see this racist theory questioned in Africans, the world over, especially when shot by police. This aggressive tone doesn’t exhibit itself on uptown youth, remember it cuts across class in Jamaica 52 – 18 % where the incarceration rate would reflect it.

Maybe Ganja lets white youth in the USA and Uptown youths in Jamaica finish high school and graduate college because it maximizes the genes to achieve better like Obama and Bill Clinton?

That would explain Mario Deane attacking a deaf mute and a mentally ill man for a bed.

R.I.P Deane and Brown

CC: The Chevannes report

http://www.cannabis-med.org/science/Jamaica.htm


Why arent their more people questioning this racist, classist reasoning in Jamaica?

[Rockman]

Weed people need fi hold a medi,see de light and become BIG funders.Just like,she would be an ardent defender.
Wouldn't you expect Gomes to defend Rasta usage of weed?
Are rasta immune to the so-called harmful effects?

[Muadib]

Yuh realize is not Carolyn Gomes this.. right ?

[Mosiah]

Dr. Lowe have sense?

According to Dr Lowe: "I am for managed controlled research into marijuana. I am not into smoking ganja. Smoking has its own dangers, but I have also maintained that marijuana has strong medical use."

[Sir X]

Dr Lowe has maintained his stand for his own business interest,he is in it for the research value i.e money ,he has stated more than once his Gomes theory,alinging himself with Quacks advocating treating cultural addiction and mental illness that they believe is caused by ganja.

Poor people and Rastas have no quarter in their jamaican ganja prizim,except to be treated as sub human under some medicinal scheme for illnesses and the mental illnesss and physical addiction is in it.....racist and classist...under the theme ,they dont advocating smoking it.


Free To Finally Bun A Spliff

There is also a classist stereotype with marijuana use. It's not the stick of choice for Jamaica's upper crust. A man can be seen smoking a cigarette and not lose an ounce of respect, but society definitely associates weed with the lowest socio-economic group. Let's be real, if you walk through Cherry Gardens and smell sensimilla, your first assumption is that someone's gardener just lit up. Not that the Joneses are getting hammered in their uptown abode. They don't do it - or so we are led to believe - even if it's just out of fear of what the neighbours would think.

So here's my final position. If I do smoke weed, I have five strict rules.


http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...cleisure2.html

[Historian]

Bump....

Up to the top we go.

[Sir X]

Nice work my Prentice,keep it up,try scroll back to 2010,see what you find,enlighten the massive.

Proud a yuh.