NEWS: Jamaica Government Officials To Review Marijuana Decriminalization

By Jamaal Greenidge

...ministerial review of the 2001 report was first announced on Monday.

Jamaica Government officials are set to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal and religious use.The Bruce Golding Cabinet has appointed a ministerial committee to review the recommendations of the report of the national commission on ganja. The report also recommended the Government launches a national education programme aimed at reducing the number of young people who use ganja; the security forces intensify their interdiction of large scale cultivation of ganja and the trafficking of all illegal drugs; the establishment of a cannabis research agency; and that the Government ensures international support for these actions.

Any change in existing drug laws would have to be approved by Jamaica’s Parliament. The ministerial review of the 2001 report was first announced on Monday.

Source: i95.5 FM

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