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On March 05, 2021 the lower house of parliament debated an amendment to the drug abuse prevention act that would remove the possession of 14 grammes of cannabis from the list of offences for which one can be charged, instead a ticketing system would be used.

The government is moving as promised in the direction of liberalising Barbados cannabis laws, following decriminalisation for medicinal and sacramental purposes last year. Government emphasized during the debate full decriminalisation will have to be subject to a referendum as stated in its manifesto.

Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Amendment Bill 2020 – Debate 1

Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Amendment Bill 2020 – Debate 2

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108 responses to “Referendum Promised on Full Decriminalization of Cannabis”

  1. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Ineffectual, nonprogressive negros, they can’t lead me anywhere…FRAUDS…a danger to Black/African people everywhere…what do you expect from the corrupt who is in love with Pope Fraud…

    for 54 years the majority population WENT NOWHERE under their fake leadership…. growth and progress will never happen in another 54 years….people need to remove themselves far away from these colonial blights sucking on Black lives.

  2. Wily Coyote Avatar
    Wily Coyote

    If the Barbados government spent more time on issues that NEED ADDRESSING rather than the fluff and puff the country maybe on the road to RECOVERY. Same old same old bullshit baffles brains approach to make the populace think everything UNDER CONTROL, all the while the basic infrastructure is crumbling.

  3. Heather Avatar
    Heather

    It now seems that full decriminalization is a process for negotiation. Why this long drawn out approach? At this rate the referendum may be used as a bait for the next General Election.

  4. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    Our government does what it promises. Here and with vaccination!

    Soon we will be the smoke & dope capital of the world. Thank you, Supreme Leader!

  5. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    saw from the mrs and mr markle interview that the royal family is racist because they were wondering about color of baby. But come on ….who wants another ginger in the family….. imagine having to hide your kid every november 20 in case everyone tries to kick him.

  6. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Lawson

    Come on. Some matters are beyond a joke. Forget Meghan, think about Harry and how he went from the most popular Royal, after the Queen, to the most disliked. What is the reason for that?
    What we do know, and according to GP it is irrefutable, Harry treats his wife much better than his father treated his mother.

  7. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    Lol Hal I have much reason to dislike british royalty but I am on their side with this one. Just from a logical stand point if you hate being in the public eye why get in the spotlight…this is all about shekels. You heard him hawking his wife doing voice overs to Bob Iger. But I do agree he may be damaged from his father and mothers relationship, are you saying marrying an older B actress was a cry for help.

  8. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “who wants another ginger in the family…..”

    watch your mouth, ginger runs through my bloodline.

  9. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “At this rate the referendum may be used as a bait for the next General Election.”

    that’s exactly what the FRAUD IS DOING…leveraging an unneeded referendum against election……SHE WILL LOSE….

    BTW..Heather…that video you posted recently about white children in poverty in South Africa, i said they can all go back to Holland, well it turns out Holland don’t want those stinking, toxic racists anywhere near them, not even the children, but i would deport all their asses anyway….right back there.

  10. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    black ginger Waru ……Is that what makes you tongue.. thai..d

  11. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Lawson

    No. What I am saying is that two young people met, fell in love, and got married. That simple human act was too much for the British press and they went for them, with the implicit support of British society.
    Blacks are acceptable when they are the waiters or grooms, but not when they are sitting at the table.

  12. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    Hal this has nothing to do with race this is a drama queen her own family say so, when this is over I feel for that poor boy. The best line I have seen is she makes camilla seem like a nice person. the Queens a racist she implies do you think the brits are going to put up with that.

  13. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Lawson

    Her white family said so. If you keep up this argument you are in danger of making Waru seem intelligent.

  14. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    (Quote);
    The government is moving as promised in the direction of liberalising Barbados cannabis laws, following decriminalisation for medicinal and sacramental purposes last year. Government emphasized during the debate full decriminalisation will have to be subject to a referendum as stated in its manifesto. (Unquote).
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Both of those pieces of legislation- for medicinal and sacramental (religious) purposes- fly in the face of the Constitution with its non-discriminatory niceties.

    They are both pandering to partisan interest of specific groups of citizens while discriminating against other groups without just cause; both legislatively and morally.

    What ‘moral’ wrong is being perpetrated against these so-called vulnerable groups to make them super citizens in the eyes of the law?.

    What is this new ‘nature’s’ brand of man-cultivated pharmaceutical called medicinal mary jane (the recently hired assistant to the goddess Hygeia) bringing to the human medicine cabinet that the man-made dispensary has not already brought to he “traditional” pharmacy’s table?

    Should Ms Mary Jane, that old Satanic plant, be given a legal ‘floral’ makeover similar to what the papal-defined whore Mary Magdalene was given as a ‘Christian’ makeover to turn that formerly desecrated person into a ‘holy’ saint?

    What is so special these days about the Rastafarian community to make them a ‘special case’ in need of some legal entitlement to special treatment similar to what disabled people are entitled to, like wheel-chair access and reserved parking?

    Is it the government’s way of compensating the Rasta community for the decades of unjustified persecution like what the Romans did to the early Christian community?

  15. David Avatar
    David

    Thanks Miller.

    @Heather

    Is this a black or white issue?

    With decriminalization of cannabis like others there are the competing perspectives based on the philosophical or science.

  16. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “They are both pandering to partisan interest of specific groups of citizens while discriminating against other groups without just cause; both legislatively and morally.”

    They are ALL FRAUDS…sucking on BLACK LIVES…that’s all they’ve ever done…it’s up to the Black population to let it continue, we know that the slaveminded would, but not everyone is thus……

    “to what disabled people are entitled to, like wheel-chair access and reserved parking?”

    you would notice that the DISABLED were COMPLETELY LEFT OUT….all other countries PROVIDED legal remedy so that the DISABLED and the AVERAGE CITIZEN can grow at least 4-6 MARIJUANA PLANTS per year to cut down on pain and suffering due to chronic pain and the symptoms associated with NCDs that’s killing bajans by the THOUSANDS ANNUALLY……but not the colonial frauds of parliament, they are not interested on easing the burden on the healthcare system..

    “her own family say so,”

    her white family are the WORSE TYPES OF DRAMA QUEENS….have heard her crazy sister and brother…ya would call for straight jackets for them right away..

    besides, all UK need to do is create a DISTRACTION and yall fall RIGHT INTO IT……..🤣🤣😂😂…yall are gossiping MEN…

    “black ginger Waru”

    BOTH SIDES Lawson..both sides.

  17. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Lawson March 8, 2021 9:43 AM
    (Quote):
    Hal this has nothing to do with race this is a drama queen her own family say so, when this is over I feel for that poor boy. The best line I have seen is she makes camilla seem like a nice person. the Queens a racist she implies do you think the brits are going to put up with that. (Unquote).
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    How do you think the current Queen Lizzie managed to ascend the British Royal throne? By sleeping her way up to the top like some corporate ladder-climbing ambitious hussy?

    Can you tell us how the poor Prince Harry is in any way different from His great-grand Uncle Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, the Prince of Wales turned King Edward V111 of Great Britain and its Commonwealth of colonies including Canada?

    Didn’t that besotted king give up his throne just to be with his twice-divorced sweet American man-woman Wallis Simpson?

    Hasn’t the recycled royalty ‘redhead’ called the radical prince Harry fall into the same American divorcee honey trap (with that Baltimore grip) like his great grand ancestor Edward V111?

    Are you are going to accept his paternal heritage as ‘truly blue-blooded’ German or are you going to question poor Harry’s royal background; as you should with the Jesus jacket ready-made for poor Prince Joseph?

    ‘Those ‘native’ commoners (like you) who live in mud huts or igloos should not throw stones at the royalty living in glass houses in far way places.’

  18. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Miller…it’s been PROVEN beyond a doubt that medical marijuana SANS big pharma chemicals…significantly reduces chronic pain, the discomfort associated with heart attacks and strokes…and a myriad of other illnesses..

    .but SANS big pharma chemicals…

    i saw one person who had two stokes and two heart attacks, could barely walk and months later they are running all over the place, and that’s only one…there are thousands and thousands of stories where medical marijuana has created quality of life……sans side effects…

  19. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ et al
    We are a strange lot ! I actually thought we were going to discuss the topic.

    Here is my five cents, for what it is worth::
    Let the people grow the plant. It does not belong to the government. The market will take care of the rest , just like it does with lettuce or cabbage.

  20. David Avatar
    David

    @William

    Is there a cost to society to managing the fallout from misuse of cannabis compared to lettuce?

  21. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    William…it’s very clear what the low class and slimy are trying to do. But nobody mankind makes plans and our ancestors laugh.

    No matter if ya earned it legally.

    OR TIEF it like many we know. It can’t help ya..

    “French MP and billionaire DIES in helicopter crash

    French billionaire politician Olivier Dassault has been killed in a helicopter crash, according to AFP.

    Dassault, 69, was son of industrialist Serge Dassault, whose group owns Le Figaro newspaper.

    Reports say the pilot also died in the accident over Normandy.”

  22. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ David March 8, 2021 11:16 AM

    You are about to step on a trail of hot coals while juggling a full hand of hot potatoes.

    Why the lowly lettuce comparison which can never be considered a drug; whether natural or man-made?

    How about the locally-manufactured rum or imported whisky, vodka and brandy as a more compellingly convincing comparison?

    If a grower of all herbs ‘accidentally’ smoke (instead of cigarettes) a common plant or herb like the blue vervain and found out that it does indeed possess psychotropic properties like cannabis sativa when burnt or soaked in a tincture, wouldn’t you expect the government to criminalize it unless they can find a way of taxing that sinful habit?

    You might be surprised to learn that the marijuana plant when consumed by herbivores or even carnivores as a natural medicine does a tremendous job of improving the health of the digestive tracts and the quality of the output readily consumed by humans.

    So why not use the ‘proposed’ locally-grown cannabis as an ingredient of the feedstock to improve the health of the animals which provide a ready source of food for humans instead of the numerous kinds of synthetic medicines like antibiotics presently used on those government-subsidized commercial farms?

  23. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “Let the people grow the plant. It does not belong to the government.”

    anything to CRIMINALIZE Black people while ROBBING THEM BLIND…

    the Black population has to PUT AN END TO THAT…..no one else can.

  24. David Avatar
    David

    @Miller

    Your argument is understood but you are aware of the time of prohibition. There is a period of transition that is required to accommodate demands from a changing society INCLUDING the establishment. This is how societies are wired to do business. Note Barbados is not alone in the phased approach of decriminalizing the drug/

  25. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David
    This government is tiptoeing on this matter after promising much more. Barbados will never do anything too radical even when needed.

    Markets are protected, fought over and controlled. There is nothing sacred about them. Socalled free markets end up with monopolies and oligopolies. More of the same.

    If this BLP guvment were serious the cannabis market would have been protected by law for those who suffered to make it “legitimate”

  26. John Avatar
    John

    Do we really need to waste time on this sh!t?

  27. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    The government promised a referendum and in the interim decriminalize if caught with small quantities did they not?

  28. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Cannabis is not a drug it is a herb / plant

    referendum about decriminalisation is not the way to go as it will be a numbers game

    people smoke herb already and are not criminals they are upstanding honorary citizens

  29. David Avatar
    David

    People engage in white collar crime and are upstanding citizens.

  30. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David

    Why would they always have to serve the traditional moneymen? This is what they fixing for. No less than criminal!

  31. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    We are takers from the global money changers. You know this better than most.

  32. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “have been protected by law for those who suffered to make it “legitimate””

    the piece of shit in the social parasites partnership already talking about they got the marijuana, only compounding that no one with Black skin can trust the Black faces….while they distract with crap about a referendum…giving minority parasites time to get a foothold, while the Black population gets nothing….

  33. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    All that cursed parliament HAS EVER HAD……and will….EVER HAVE ….are Black SELLOUTS…

  34. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    Miller March 8, 2021 11:52 AM #: “You are about to step on a trail of hot coals while juggling a full hand of hot potatoes. Why the lowly lettuce comparison which can never be considered a drug; whether natural or man-made?”

    @ Miller

    I’m sure David is quite capable of defending himself, but he wasn’t the person who introduced lettuce into the discussion.

    I interpreted Mr. Skinner’s comments to mean ‘government’ should decriminalize marijuana, which would allow “the people to grow it”……… and the market would determine demand, supply and price, “just like it does with lettuce or cabbage.”

    David simply asked, “if there is a cost to society to managing the fallout from misuse of cannabis compared to lettuce,” which I believe is a fair question.

    Bearing that in mind, why did you take the ‘discussion’ way beyond its context, to mention “locally-manufactured rum or imported whisky, vodka and brandy as a more compellingly convincing comparison;” the consumption of marijuana plant as a “natural medicine by herbivores or even carnivores;” and, “as an ingredient of the feedstock to improve the health of the animals,” which essentially is a completely different argument.

  35. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    Millord I didn’t realize you were so royal, nothing wrong with an igloo or you you hating mukluks now. We (as in most men) know the type of woman ,shake our heads at our buddy’s that are pussy whipped . Slowly but surely they divide and conquer until friends and family fall by the wayside, and the guy usually years down the road cant figure out what happened.
    Black ginger Waru craving the manroot eh , Lol as William was trying to tell him act in haste repent at leisure. I totally agree with Hals assessment the poor boy was easy pickens do to trauma.

  36. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Yall gossiping MEN can stay there with ya sous sousing…bunch of hoes…

    Harry already made his choice to be free….why don’t yall go and take his place….ah dare ya…

  37. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Artax March 8, 2021 1:01 PM
    “I interpreted Mr. Skinner’s comments to mean ‘government’ should decriminalize marijuana, which would allow “the people to grow it”……… and the market would determine demand, supply and price, “just like it does with lettuce or cabbage.”

    David simply asked, “if there is a cost to society to managing the fallout from misuse of cannabis compared to lettuce,” which I believe is a fair question.”
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    And I totally support William Skinner’s position. Laws must reflect the moral principle of fairness and equality wherever possible.

    Every potentially mind or body altering substance that is misused has a societal cost attached.

    That’s why there are agents like the police and the psychiatric and general hospitals to handle the fallout.

    That’s where the abuse of alcoholic beverages becomes relevant.

    There where the abuse of food (overeating of processed foods) comes into the picture arising from the massive high rates of NCD’s plaguing the country.

    The only question confronting the society is who shall pay for the management of the fallout.

    Would you be prepared to support a call for the imposition of a fine of $200.00 on any one caught in possession of a pint of rum or other forms of ‘spirits’ for personal consumption or jail and a conviction for anything over that?

  38. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    “as stated in its manifesto”
    Wondering if the next thread will be a checklist of all manifesto items, and their stage of accomplishment.

  39. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Gods spirituals laws are intuitive but I guess those who have power love laws like it’s superpowers over mortals

    Police should just issue a statement that they will not charge or prosecute anyone with half a zee

    then let the lawmakers rigorously debate the non issue of removing their damned law from the frigging statue books

  40. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Meghan wiped the royals off the floor

    she gets even more respect from me

    American women are tough and don’t take shit

  41. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    Lol Dub please explain to me why they have left britain because of racism to move to an even more racist country, do you guys not read what you write. She will soon be forgotten oprah will have to sell her house to get away from the soon to be toxic couple.

  42. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Britain is more racist than USA you need to have lived in both countries to know

    who feel’s it to knows it

    in USA women and girls are more outgoing and interesting than men and boys who are quiet boring and unintelligent

    although there are some areas down south where KKK men shoot up withe women for dating coloureds those are just more examples of the regressive dumb white men

  43. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    @ Miller March 8, 2021 2:03 PM

    Of course, I would “be prepared to support a call for the imposition of a fine of $200.00 on any one caught in possession of a pint of rum or other forms of ‘spirits’ for personal consumption or jail and a conviction for anything over that,”………………..

    …………. IF alcohol consumption was ILLEGAL.

    But, if you were attempting to make a correlation between herb and alcohol, at this point in time, whereas it is illegal to smoke or be in possession of any quantity of herb because it is a controlled substance, “the consumption or abuse of alcoholic beverages” is NOT illegal, so too is “the abuse of food (overeating of processed foods).”

    Therefore, ‘at the end of the day,’ “it’s NOT a question confronting the society,” but a fact IT IS “the society WHO, (through taxes), shall pay for the management of the fallout.”

    And, this includes the operating and administrative expenses for “agents like the police and the psychiatric and general hospitals to handle the fallout.”

  44. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Lawson whitesplaining racism is seriously missing..

  45. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    4 posts and no crappy records what happen your pornograph go on the fritz. Speaking of fritz how about harry in the nazi outfit, and that shooting up women kkk guy was that ralph northam

  46. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Soundsystems must warm up their speakers for a couple of hours before they tun it up

    After playing reggae for 10+ hours I like to chill with jazz

    I wonder how many tunes I will be able to find with lyrics on the subject matter topic in hand

    got music like dirt

    “Man whats the matter with that cat there?”
    “Must be full of reefer”
    “Full of reefer?!”
    “Yea man”
    “You mean that cats high?!”
    “Sailing”
    “Sailing”
    “Sailing lightly”
    “Get away from here
    Man is that the reefer man?”
    “Thats the reefer man”
    “I belive hes losing his mind”
    “I think hes lost his mind!”
    Oh have you ever met that funny reefer man (reefer man!)
    Have you ever met that funny reefer man (reefer man!)
    If he said he swam to china, and he sell you south carolina
    Then you know your talkn to that reefer man
    Have you ever met funny reefer man (reefer man!)
    Have you ever met funny reefer man (reefer man!)
    If he said he walks the ocean, any time he takes the notion
    Then you know your talkn to reefer man.
    Have you ever met this funny reefer man (reefer man!)
    Oh baby…

  47. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    Minny the moocher timely

  48. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    When I Get Low I Get High
    My fur-coat’s sold, oh, Lord ain’t it cold
    But I’m not gonna holler ’cause I’ve still got a dollar
    And when I get low, oh, I get high
    My man walked out, now you know that ain’t right
    Well, he better watch out if I meet him tonight
    I said when I get low, oh, I get high
    All this hard luck in this town has found me
    Nobody knows how troubles go round and round me, oh
    I’m all alone with no one to pet me
    That old rocking chair ain’t never gonna get me
    Cause when I get low, oh, I get high
    When I get low
    Oh I get high

  49. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Boy, shes really frantic,
    the wildest chick in town
    She blows her gauge,
    flies in a rage,
    Sweet Marijuana Brown

    In her victory garden,
    The seeds grow all around
    She plants, you dig,
    she’s flipped her wig,
    Sweet Marijuana Brown

    She don’t know where she’s going,
    She don’t care where she’s been
    But every time you take her out,
    she bound to take you in
    Boy, that gal means trouble,
    you oughta put her down
    Get hip, take care, look out, beware of Sweet Marijuana Brown

    She don’t know where she’s going,
    She don’t care where she’s been
    But every time you take her out,
    she bound to take you in
    Boy, that gal means trouble,
    you oughta put her down
    Get hip, take care, look out, beware of Sweet Marijuana Brown

  50. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Artax March 8, 2021 3:27 PM
    “But, if you were attempting to make a correlation between herb and alcohol, at this point in time, whereas it is illegal to smoke or be in possession of any quantity of herb because it is a controlled substance, “the consumption or abuse of alcoholic beverages” is NOT illegal, so too is “the abuse of food (overeating of processed foods).””
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    And that is exactly the bone of contention.

    The objective is to remove the illegality cum criminalization aspect of the consumption of the plant in whichever form to put it on par with other substances determined as dangerous for human consumption.

    What is the political purpose behind the retention of the criminalization of the plant? Doesn’t it make a mockery of that two-tier or track violation of the law?

    Isn’t the person caught with less than 14 grams (and fined $200.00) still aiding and abetting in the illegal (and ‘criminal’) growing and supply of that same controlled substance?

    Why should the same marijuana plant (which has been a given a bad name, as alcohol once attracted during Prohibition) be used for medicinal purposes but it cannot be used for culinary purposes as is widely done in some cultures?

    This ‘decriminalization’ move would put it on the same footing as lettuce or any other ‘herb’ as William Skinner with a large dose of commonsense (and personal experience as his ‘chaser’) suggested.

    If naturall-growing marijuana is good enough for medicine it is even better as a food.

    Isn’t healthy natural food considered the best preventative medicine for the human body?

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