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THERE IS ONLY ONE ONANDI LOWE!
"Good things come out of the garrisons" after his daughter won the 100m Gold For Jamaica.
"It therefore is useless and pointless, unless it is for share malice and victimisation to arrest and charge a 92-year-old man for such a simple offence. There is nothing morally wrong with this man smoking a spliff; the only thing wrong is that it is still on the law books," said Chevannes. -
Sacramental 'weed' debate intensifies
Marcus Goffe, a member of the Rastafari community who is also the attorney-at-law representing the elder, shared that his client will appear in the Morant Bay Parish Court to answer to the cultivation charge on November 9. The attorney will be requesting a meeting with Commissioner of Police Major General Antony Anderson to request that he tells the men and women of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to "back off" the Rastafari community. He argued that the constant harassment of Rastafarians who plant ganja for sacramental purposes must stop, and pointed to the amendment of the Dangerous Drugs Act in 2015 which he said gave the group the right to use ganja as sacrament. He told the Jamaica Observer that numerous Rastafarians, including the elder who was arrested, had applied for licences to allow them to cultivate ganja for sacramental use but said the Ministry of Justice had not put a proper framework in place to facilitate the issuance of those licences.
"We explained everything to the police who arrested the elder. They said they were aware of the amendment but essentially the Ministry of Justice did not give any go-ahead so they cannot acknowledge the application for the licence.
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THERE IS ONLY ONE ONANDI LOWE!
"Good things come out of the garrisons" after his daughter won the 100m Gold For Jamaica.
"It therefore is useless and pointless, unless it is for share malice and victimisation to arrest and charge a 92-year-old man for such a simple offence. There is nothing morally wrong with this man smoking a spliff; the only thing wrong is that it is still on the law books," said Chevannes.
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