06-13-2014, 09:02 AM
Beer is proof God wants us to be happy, Ben Franklin
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06-13-2014, 09:02 AM
Beer is proof God wants us to be happy, Ben Franklin
06-13-2014, 10:37 AM
Why the half step? Now you have to worry about being ticketed instead of arrested. Full legalization makes more sense. This proposal is similar to where California is currently at and it just gives the PO PO reason to shake you down.
"Do not argue with an idiot, he will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience." Greg King
06-13-2014, 11:05 AM
Booger, politicians almost always take baby steps on something bigger.
Beer is proof God wants us to be happy, Ben Franklin
06-13-2014, 12:46 PM
As of right now Ganga is not legal in California, not the way it is in Colorado or Washington. It was the first state to pass a medical statute and remains the state with the most liberal laws and guidelines towards medical use. Ah-nald's parting measure was to decriminalize 1 ounce of weed.
Hopefully this will change towards full on legalization in November - stay tuned. As for fines, nothing changes for the tourist. You get caught with any amount of ganga chances are you will still have to pay "the fine" up front. Cash only, up to $500US depending on your negotiating skills and maybe, just maybe they will give you your ganga back. I had dinner with a Jamaican friend this week and we were discussing this. He shook his head - Jamaicans tend to be pretty negative about what would appear to the onlooker as a positive change in policy, I guess they've just had the other shoe drop too many times. His first statement was that lots of people were going to be killed around decriminalization or more accurately, legalization. With corruption as rampant as it is in politics and law enforcement there his thinking was that if Ganga was ever legalized its farming would be limited to those with political favor - the small growers would still have to hide despite the law being on their side. Soldiers and police who make a good deal of their living shaking down growers and dealers would lose a good deal of income - so there would be problems surrounding that. File that under the "nothing is as it seems" category I guess. Eye opening discussion from the other side for sure. "Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right..."
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06-13-2014, 12:56 PM
Interesting Rastagirl777, thanks for posting
Beer is proof God wants us to be happy, Ben Franklin
06-13-2014, 01:36 PM
This past reach, they added undercover cops on the beach. With tourists, they simply told them to put it out and not smoke anymore - a warning but not an arrest or fine or shakedown. This happened to three different peeps.
06-13-2014, 02:50 PM
Undercover cops have been patrolling the beach for decades. Those tourists were lucky - one of THE golden rules when traveling to Negril is to never, ever smoke on the beach - you really are asking to be busted. Hub used to take his spliff and walk out into the sea - cops there never want to get wet
The single most risky and stupid place to smoke is on the beach or right on the road...you are fair pickings and if you are by yourself or with just a couple of folk the picking could get really expensive (as common as it is for them to receive bribes, they usually do not want to do it in too much a public place, especially these days. They'd rather haul you off to the Negril jail and scare the crap out of you.) "Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right..."
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06-13-2014, 04:55 PM
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I think this will be interesting to see. They did the same thing in uk a few years ago, but declassified cannabis rather than call it decriminalise, but same thing in reality.
they reclassified it a few years later after an increase in youth crime and a rise in cases of diagnosed drug induced psychosis. it also cost the government more money and they couldn't make anything from it as well. The police couldn't be bothered with chasing the kids to just issue a fine, so it got to where the younger ones were walking around smoking it in public blatantly. Im not into it personally, work in a field where the effects of it are very evident, but it is more chemical based over here which makes a difference. But I live in the real world too where friends and colleagues partake. Even hubby can't believe how the kids over here are 'mad up' cos of weed. It looks like Jamaica are going to go ahead and decriminalise so it will be interesting to watch different ways to be corrupt! Hubby will be pleased, we drove from sav last year and got stopped by police. Hubby had to swallow his spliff. They knew they had seen it and were fuming. I could have killed him..
06-13-2014, 06:13 PM
Some of the local hoteliers and restaurant owners are rubbing their hands in anticipation of total legality for ganja. If it does happen, the change will prove a boon for tourism, obviously.
06-13-2014, 06:25 PM
Do you think, cos i think most tourists probably think it's legal already... Which is a discussion that got us both in trouble for a change on the other board.
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