Why wait until next year to expunge a person record who had one or two ounces or less of cannabis or a joint? So while Mr PM waits, our clueless and backwards thinking RBPF officers and Judges will continue hauling persons before the courts and charging them for a joint only to waste time again just to get the records expunged next year. It would make more sense to give a directive order that any person with this small amount of cannabis is to be left alone and the focus should be geared towards persons with guns and other crimes committed against others.

Yup. Exactly.

This is such a backwards move. At first blush it appears to be progressive and hip. However it will not be long until we are asked to decriminalize cocaine and heroin.

There has not been enough assessments done of the costs and benefits of using this drug which contributes to lethargy, gluttony, debauchery and mental illness to name a few.

Could anyone please let us know what benefits this drug contributes to society? Admit that it is a gateway drug, the use of which leads to the use of other drugs including alcohol, cocaine and heroin, Look at the inner city areas of America and what do you find? Demotivated, uneducated and the criminally inclined People who have lost the enthusiasm for upward mobility. And this proclivity cycles back to reinforce the commonly held view that blacks are lazy.

I am sure you will be surprised to know that marijuana is made easily available in the inner cities in America by the powers that be in order to keep Afro-Americans in a stupor.

And we want this in the Bahamas? Look at what will happen with school achievements .

And in the haste to run with this cool thing no consideration is being given to how the youth will be distracted from its use and abuse.

Sorry. Your post is full of untruths and faulty reasoning. Try skoking a joint to correct this problem. And yes, that is why the inner citied are the way they are. All their fault for smoking marijuana. Wow.

Haha. What value does marijuana add to one’s life? You are obviously under it’s influence as you write this foolish justification.

Pray tell me what is it’s value and I will understand.

What value does looking at art have? How about listening to music, or the birds sing? Glad you're not king.

Bahamians have always failed to prioritize issues, hence our delusional arrogance and pride while living in a failed state! Coronavirus has exposed the absolute failure of our country to prepare for the future and the current failure of governance makes it clear that we need more critical thinking and problem solving in this country, rather than following what everyone else is doing to our detriment. We are such a simple people!

A man was today sent to prison for 6 months for having a $5.00 joint, wow how stupid, this country is so backward in our thinking, for a $5, joint it cost the taxpayers thousands, first for the arresting officer or officers, gas, paper to write the dumbness on, feeding the person before going to court, paying a Judge to preside over this stupidness, locking the person up, into a dump called BCS with COVID-19 circling, then having to feed this person for 6 months, and then give him a possession record. I can guarantee that the ***stress*** our dumb and backward judicial system put on this person, in 6 months he won't come out rehabilitated, when this person is released from prison for having a $5. joint the first thing he will do is look for a $5. joint to relieve his stress from being locked up. Then next year Mr. PM will call him in to have his record expunged. WOW in the 47 years since independence we have grown DUMBER, RETARDED.