It isreported that in the US 40,000 have died since January 2020 from opiate overdoses. During this same time frame the number of people who died in the US from mariuana overdose has been exactly none. Consider that for a moment. Let it sink in and then wonder why this whole discussion has even been necessary.

Because in our country there has never been a clear separation between the church and the state.

Simply not true. You are ignoring the many lives typically lost or ruined in any given year as a result of serious accidents caused by heavy marijuana users (potheads) driving and/or operating dangerous equipment while stoned out of their minds.

Try again..... being abusively stoned on marijuana or abusively drunk on alcohol while operating motor vehicles or heavy equipment creates a dangerous impairment situation for both the impaired individual and others. And I bet you've smoked plenty marijuana and are most productive at your workplace. lol

tribanon AKA muddatakesic iives in the stone age. The fried egg BS, Red China, you know the yellow peril comes from the cold war era. Living in the past is a convenient cop out for him. He is NOT a modern man, but he has a high sperm count!!

Marijuana will not kill you but may mess with the way your brain processes things like whilst watching TV - make you think launch campaign to get the Looney Tunes character, **Road Runner** to be looked at as worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize nomination for his **humane treatment** Wile E. Coyote. **Shakehead** a quick once for Upyeahvote, Twice for not.

There is an economic toll associated with habitual pot smokers. They are well known to be much less productive compared to their peers in the workplace. Let's not be too quick to forget that BPL's pothead workers out at Clifton Pier did not exactly do the greatest job at keeping our lights on at night for many years.

I'm okay with physician prescribed medical use in properly regulated and controlled situations. But like many others, I'm dead set against legalizing the general use of even small amounts of marijuana because this would be quickly abused and simply add to the many problems our small nation already has with the abuse of another substance, alcohol.

Hi TribuneAnon; you are not OK with decriminalization of marijuana because of what you claim to be a list of unsubstantiated and nebulous negative side effects.. Why not mention the very obvious and deadly effects of obesity in our country? Diabetes and Hypertension anyone? Should we not immediately make sugar, meat, and junk food illegal? Let's start putting people in jail for being obese; after all obese people are well known to be less productive and take more days off sick than no-obese people?

You're completely missing the point. Yes, if you're a skinny frail soul and a morbidly obese Bahama Mama trips and falls on top of you, then you might well not survive the unfortunate incident. But how would you feel being a passenger on a commercial airliner with the cockpit crew comprised of stoned and seriously impaired potheads? Why do you think the active druh in marijuana (THC) is included in the required random drug testing done for so many of the more dangerous occupations where public safety is at risk? All of you marijuana lovers need to get real!

P.S. It's hard to prevent someone from harming themself, but government does have a role to play in preventing someone from harming others from a public safety standpoint.

Tribun. Your point is totally irrelevant. I have not seen anyone anywhere advocating that commercial airline pilots should be allowed to smoke weed before they pilot an aircraft. unfortunately creating false narratives is very common with people who cannot put forward logical arguments. have you perhaps been consuming sugar today? Has it perhaps clouded your judgement? We need to ban all refined sugar products and make it illegal to eat dead animal parts; then the nation will start to get more healthy and people will be able to think more clearly.

You're of course 1000000% correct. There, does that make you feel any better? LOL

You've clearly smoked too much of it for way too long. And sad to say there's no known treatment for reversing the harmful effects on the brain. Think of an egg frying in a frying pan!

Plenty people gonna have glaucoma and arthritis now

This is just another red herring to take the attention of the people off of the fact that government is now planning to sink us MORE in debt by borrowing money to improve airports all around the Bahamas - as if people are not going hungry in this country every day. We don't have any money to spend on airports except for very very very urgently needed repairs. Making airport pretty or more functional should wait. There ain't no tourists anyway.

Yes, they may come in the future - but let's cross that bridge when we come to it. Right now small businesses need help (real help not more debt from banks) so the people can work and the economy can move up. It is so very much like government to continue their borrowing bonanza - making things look pretty for early election - while the people suffer.

This is disgusting.

Bingo!