PM Says Treaties Blocking Legalisation Of Cannabis For Recreational Use

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The Lower House of Parliament today started their debate to pass the necessary laws making the use of cannabis for medical purposes legal.

Prime Minister Gaston Browne who piloted the bill said it will allow the government to collect “significant amount of taxes.”

Browne estimates that the legalisation for medicinal use can generate in excess of 100 million dollars in revenue.

He said that money can help fund the new UWI Campus to open at Five Islands next year.

“The bill will also upload the constitutional religious rights of Rastafarians by allowing the plant for sacramental purposes,” he told law makers.

“It is a right violated by archaic laws…to ensure that they can utilise marijuana without any sort of harassment,” he said.

Browne said the law will also help regulate the black market supply of cannabis.

In debating the bill, Browne said only licensed and qualified persons will be authorised to dispense the medicine.

The Prime Minister said his government would want to go further to legalise the plant for recreational use but cannot do so yet.

“We have a number of treaty obligations that will preclude us from going that far

“The aspiration is to have the legalisation of marijuana for recreational use.”

The rastafarian community is expected to be the first recipient of the licence.

Browne said it was a form of reparation for the injustices that they have suffered over the years.

Rastafarian Community In Attendance

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6 COMMENTS

  1. Didn’t the Prime Minister already legalized the marijuana plant for recreational use by making it 15 grams per person and 4 plant per property/yard??

  2. WE ARE STILL SLAVES. TREATIES CONTROLL US.

    BULL SHIT GET RID OF THE TREATY
    PROBLEM SOLVED.

    WAIT ANTIGUA IS NOT SOVERIGN?

    • Antigua needs to start acting like a truly free and independent nation. We need to stop joining all these weird Caribbean organizations, like CARICOM, that waste our government time and money. Antigua can be richer than all the other Caribbean nations, if we just trusted ourselves.

  3. Legalize it but be sure to regulate purity and also don’t tax it too high to where it goes underground again. Let’s sell high quality approved weed to all the visiting cruise passengers, Antigua will surely get rich.

    Let’s also legalize regulated prostitution while we are at it. It’s time for us to be honest that it happens here anyways, so just have the government regulate it properly.

    • Are you trying to turn Antigua & Barbuda into Amsterdam? What next? Legalize gay marriage and LBGTQXYZ prostitution?

      Legalize domestic violence since “It’s time for us to be honest that it happens here anyways…”???

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