{"id":147098,"date":"2022-02-26T10:10:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T14:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=147098"},"modified":"2022-02-26T10:10:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T14:10:23","slug":"police-pm-say-leave-rastaman-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/police-pm-say-leave-rastaman-weed\/","title":{"rendered":"Police, PM Say Leave Rastaman Weed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Makeda Mikael<\/p>

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Dear Police of Antigua & Barbuda,<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister has asked you to stop harassing Rastafari with their weed. Four trees are legal for all persons, Rasta or pagan, and in growing the holy herb (cannabis), one tree properly grown can weigh several pounds, so picking up a RASTAMAN for 1\/4 lb of weed is most unrighteousness.<\/p>

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This happened on Thursday, very current!
\nThe P.M. has made it clear that herb is going to be grown in Antigua for money, and white and Indian people are being given licenses to grow and process Cannabis (weed\/herb) in this country for profit.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile the local Rasta weed law (4 trees) prohibits Rasta from selling, so when a RASTAMAN makes a move with his locally produced herb, why arrest the man, and force bail on him, and carry him before the Magistrate on Monday morning to rob the poor RASTAMAN with a fine! Something is just not right here. Double Standard or what?<\/p>\n

It is very important to remember at the beginning of this new cannabis ‘plantation democracy’ (something like ‘entrepreneurial socialism’) the rules remain the same, just like cane field can burn so weed field can burn.<\/p>

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If we carry this ‘plantation democracy’ into the economic powerhouse it is likely to cause further delay in getting the plantations up and running. It is worthwhile to think about the people who have been growing and using the holy herb in Antigua for the past fifty plus years, (and our ancestors who used it too) who have suffered the heavy hand of the law in the form of Police boots, batons, and fists, and guns, and death.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister went as far as to pay back one Rasta community from the CIP funds for the holy herb that the police destroyed, and warned the police to leave them alone. He further opened up at the launch of Ras Freeman that is weed and Rasta dread food that sustained him growing up in Point as a tender youth (though not a weed user).<\/p>\n

Mr. Commissioner are you aware of how much Arizona weed you permit to circulate in Antigua because the foreign students don’t like Antigua weed? Please stop your officers from hassling RASTAMAN and the black and local community for weed.<\/p>\n

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If you were to do a poll on Antigua’s young adults you would find that most of the foreign community kids that live in the protected communities use weed, grew weed at their homes long before the 4 trees law came into effect, and how many of them you ever see at the police stations?<\/p>\n

Double standards, discriminatory arrests, religious persecution!<\/p>\n

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