Jamaica Considers Legalizing Cannabis
Now that California is considering legalizing marijuana…what’s stopping us?
Surely there’s lots of tax revenue there? And we could for sure use it…
Your thoughts?
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Now that California is considering legalizing marijuana…what’s stopping us?
Surely there’s lots of tax revenue there? And we could for sure use it…
Your thoughts?
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Decriminalization is the way to go, it is different from legalization (look it up if you are not sure what I am talking about). Making it not a crime will allow the courts to be freed up and it will not be taxed. It’s very costly to process people, house them, put them in prison, keep track of them when they are out all because of a plant that evolved several millions of years ago.
ye i mean…its a victimless crime right now ..aside from police harassment for such foolishness..but if its legalized its gonna open a can of worms..and the states won’t look too happily on it either.
Good points PDR. Perhaps we should leave things the way they are…as you rightly point out a lot of people make a living of this “cash crop”. It does seem ridiculous however that people are locked up in jail for selling a little weed…
It takes pressure from the Jamaican public…they are politician after all and politicians respond to pressure. So, if people demand it- it will happen.
This is a move that the United States and Jamaica should both make immediately- it may actually happen to a degree in the US, but unfortunately Jamaican politicians are so absolutely without vision and resolve that I don’t see it ever happening here.