I agree, this should be an opportunity for Bahamians. We dont need any foreign investments or any coaching on how to grow weed. Create some wealth for the everyday man

You are right, but the quality required for the tourist market drives up the cost of production. To replace the $100 a pound crap on the streets, that will be easier.

Wanna be heard McCartney wants all of us to have the ability to sell 'medical' ganja on any street corner. Small wonder this politically inept twit never knew which political hot buttons should and should not be pushed. lol

We should be allower to sell it on every corner. Not a big fan of the man, but im a fan of any pointnog view that will stop locking up my fellow bahamains for marajuana, ganga, dope or di herb.

It is already sold on every corner. Nothing will change except the politicians will now be able to own the companies that used to be criminal gangs.

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This train has already left the station and the average Bahamian has been not only left standing in the station with an empty bag, but if he even attempts to hop on the marijuana train, he can find himself slapped with hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and /or spending the rest of his life in jail. And you thought this heartless government would have learned from the highly discriminatory Casio license and regulations and the hurdles the Web Shop owners had to go through to get a license and now to stay in business without Brit taxed into oblivion. Not fully in support of legalization of recreational marijuana but reality is that is already in common use. One would have thought government would have eased the restrictions to reduce the crime associated with it. But seems like the government went into the opposite direction and not only will many more Bahamians find themselves going to jail for marijuana possession, but some will be going for 30, 40 even 50 years and will never ever see the light of day ago. Obviously whoever advised government on this portion of the bill directed this specifically at Bahamians. And this seems to be a more intense extension of America’s FAKE war on drugs )marijuana). Which is actually a war on Black people, males especially in America’s own country , in this country and throughout the Caribbean.

Let’s see if government is really sincere and increase the penalties on persons who smuggle or sell alcoholic beverages and cigarettes without licenses and without paying proper duties.

Branville McCartney is 100% right on this one! However, no need to worry about it being used as“an election ploy” because people have totally lost all trust in the FNM and PLP promises.

Anything Minnis brings to the table at this point will seen as an attempt at trickery! Both parties
used the Freedom of Information act just before elections to fool voters. People are insulted that Minnis think we are stupid enough to fall for the same play book as Ingraham and Christ.

Minnis will have to actually produce these promises prior to the election! People aren't falling anymore promises!

Just how many medical marijuana businesses can The Bahamas support?
If everyone and his/her dog gets into the business, there will be no-one to sell it to. I'm not sure how big the market is for legally exported weed at the moment, or more importantly what the international laws are for export, so sales might be restricted to those living here.

Don't forget, even though recreational marijuana is legal in many US states, it is still not legal federally, which means you can't export it into the US or move it from state-to-state.

Currently you need to achieve a Good Manufacturing Practices standard, to import in to legalized markets like Canada or Germany. Not many well funded, technologically advanced, expertly staffed, licensed producers have achieved this around the World so i think it may be some time before we export.

Like Brave, he is spinning on minnis' top. Says a lot of nothing. Bahamians are Palestinians caught in a racist aparthied war with our Judas leader. He has betrayed us.

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He was not born when Bahamians, tourists and his elders pushed the crown to spare a poor boy a joint. Framework for legalization runs through aparthied Judas elite millionaire hands and fk all Bahamians.

Weed, a criminal subculture subdued, scorned and criminalized all of our lives has flipped. Now it has become the business of choice for the State and its elite monies sweethearts leaving life time proponents of Marijuana to drown in a locked jail come high tide or legalization. The State has suffocated 99% the everyday man in an act of betrayal on behalf of 0.005% to hold control and be able to legally use weed. This is state sponsored discriminatory neo-aparthied of the highest order that acorns our people and stumps control out of the spines. 00.005% wishes to control the whole Marijuana bubble with zero wiggle room and strangulation of the masses. This is insanity and against good governance and wholehearted goodwill.

I thought the whole point was to stop spending hundreds of millions of dollars of government money on the policing and incarceration of offenders not to mention the extremely limited court time in the Bahamas. Minnis could literally save the Bahamas Government annual expenditure Hundreds of Millions of Dollars by completely decriminalizing the stuff. He just about to borrow a Billion dollars to prop up the country overhead. it is a no-brainer and the only ones opposed to this are the ones making lots of money on the status quo.

Many politicians, lawyers, accountants and doctors smoke Marijuana. They and their children sure don't government have records on their adult decisions on how much they use and when. Big gambling brother must be crazy.