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Justice Moloch Eats Our Children
Two promising young people were exposed to what can only be called Ass-backward justice as the Police and a Magistrate failed to do the right thing in the confusing cannabis crisis in Antigua.
The Media compounded the problem by printing big and colorful, their beautiful photo in the news ported of the most well read outlet. The missing component is discretion, which seems only to exist at the Privy Council level.
Clearly the young people were experimenting with becoming local cannabis entrepreneurs, even as those employees who top up their meager salaries with a sideline revenue earner.
During this phase of converting a criminal activity into a revenue generating enterprise, where even being found with a cannabis seed used to send a person to jail, a period of education and compromise must be applied.
Antigua was one of the serious drug trans-shipment islands, until under the Stanford era, when Antigua became the financial center for the Drug-lords, which demanded a separation of product from finance.
The business of hard drugs is oncemore being accommodated in Antigua even as the island seeks to establish cannabis as a legitimate enterprise, seemingly for expatriate investment, or to get the Rasta vote.
The government failure in education and tolerance shows in this unfortunate seizure and arrest of the two siblings.
The Justice system both Police and Magistrate could have handled the matter by first advising the young people that a license is necessary, giving them time to present themselves to the Cannabis Authority to be legitimized within a timeframe.
This should be extended to Rastafari also instead of this false narrative about ‘sacrament’ as if Christians and everyone cannot buy ‘wine’ in a shop.
The Magistrate and the Police need to know that one cannabis plant can deliver a pound of the goods, but the four plant owner has no law protecting his ownership of the harvested cannabis.
Further, if each person is allowed four plants, the nine plants found, four each will only create 1 extra.
The whole Cannabis legal and operational system needs overhauling and perfecting to our island’s use and people’s revenue earning capacity.
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When the elephants fight the grass gets trampled!!!! The disengeniousness and corruption of the police, interference by high ranking government officials and judiciary has left a news portal facing the wrath of the public.
Had top officials not intervene like is the case when the common ghetto youths gets arrested there would not be so much fire under the feet of the news media nor rocks falling on their head.
It is not the first time that the picture of people arrested for drug has been published.
More over those two are involved in border control and national security.
We do not hear any backlash when the ghetto youths photo is published when arrested.
Had the police been left to do their work without interference the public would have known that the amount of cannabis involved is way more than legally permitted.
For those who want to and need to know more than 30 grown cannabis plants were uprooted.
The law permits for only four.
However to save the face of the two involved the police, high tanking government officials and judiciary cooked up a plot and have the public thinking that it was only four or five plants.
What rational excuse can a person have for growing so many plants?
You must be in competition or producing and selling to Grow Antigua.
Then there is the question of the amount of cured cannabis.
Again the permits possession of 14 grams.
What lawful excuse can you come up with for more than a pound of the substance?
However, intervention again, the police downsized the amount to 227 grams.
My people 227 grams is a half pound.
The police are law enforcers.
They do not make laws.
When for a vote the people shouted hallelujah without considering what was before them they have to suffer the consequences.
A fully grown cannabis plants can yield more than a pound of cured cannabis.
While that is so you are allowed four trees and 14 grams.
If you harvest one, two, three or all four at the same time and the police pounce on you you are in trouble.
You are not in trouble with the police.
You are in trouble with the law.
The same man when in opposition who said that we had lost a generation compounded the problem by allowing more smoking.
The same man who said he didn’t want a nation of zombies had compounded the problem.
So when you take aim please shoot the right target
Do not make the news portal the enemy.
Take back your vote from this government.
An elections is around the corner.
This needs to be straightened up.
Let a thinking government fix it and all will live in harmony.
From the time they implemented the false pretense of decriminalization of herb and said you can grow 4 plants, but also said if you have over 15 grams you will go to jail, I laugh. I knew it was a false narrative and a scam but people are so blind, that they eat it up so quick without evaluating the situation. One plant can grow as big as 8 to 9 feet and give you a pound of herb so you automatically going to prison. People can think herb is legal to a certain extent in Antigua when I know it’s not. It is only legal for the rich who can afford the license, while they continue to jail black men. Even if you are caught with one seed you still going to prison lol. In other countries a seed is considered as nothing, but once it is germinated it is illegal because now you have a plant that can produce herb, but Antigua continuing this colonial tactics stating having a seed will land you in prison lol.