Saturday, April 6, 2024
By PAVEL BAILEY
Tribune Staff Reporter
pbailey@tribunemedia.net
A MAN was sentenced to seven months in prison on Friday after he admitted to having 3oz of marijuana in his possession last Tuesday.
Magistrate Raquel Whyms charged Derek Stuart, 33, with two counts of possession of dangerous drugs with intent to supply.
Nexis Seymour, 28, was charged with a single count of possession of dangerous drugs with intent to supply with Stuart.
Stuart was reportedly found with a collective 3oz of marijuana in two separate packages on April 2 in New Providence.
Stuart was the sole defendant to plead guilty to both charges. This resulted in the charge against Ms Seymour being withdrawn.
Stuart will serve his sentence at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services.
Comments
AnObserver says...
3oz? For possession of something that grows wild. Something that used to be farmed on 90% of New Providence. Something that has been consumed by people for ten of thousands of years or more. Something that has never caused harm to anyone, ever.
Posted 7 April 2024, 2:17 p.m. Suggest removal
xtreme2x says...
wHY IS MARAJUANA NOT LEGAL IN BAHAMAS, YET.
(PROCESSION OF DANGEROUS DRUGS) A PLANT THAT WAS HERE FROM THE BEGINING OF TIME.
**Strong** WHY APPLE IS NOT A DANGEROUS DRUG???
tHIS COUNTRY LAWS ARE SO JOKEY.
Posted 7 April 2024, 5:38 p.m. Suggest removal
AnObserver says...
Someone really needs to fight in court, on the grounds of it not being dangerous.
Posted 7 April 2024, 8:45 p.m. Suggest removal
BONEFISH says...
Sentencing persons to jail for possession of small amounts of Marijuana for their personal use is foolish. That was the opinion of an English lecturer of one of my relatives. He said that they had decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana in the United Kingdom.
You are simply giving a lot of mainly young men criminal records.This in turn is making it hard for them to obtain employment.This is creating an underclass of unemployable people in this country.
Posted 7 April 2024, 7:30 p.m. Suggest removal
DWW says...
7 months expenses paid out of the public treasury for what? a young mans life ruined for what? Davis is just a joker and has no intention to changing the status quo. fool me once....
Posted 8 April 2024, 3:21 p.m. Suggest removal
DWW says...
Meanwhile the person who killed the lady and attempted to kill the man in Staneil cay is going to walk away without as scratch. That seems like reckless endangerment to me.
Posted 8 April 2024, 3:23 p.m. Suggest removal
Bonefishpete says...
Listen up Florida has recreational marijuana ballot vote in November. Polls show it passing. Now if Florida legalizing pot what's gonna happen when they drag the tourists off the cruise ships and throws dem in Fox Hill Prison for "Dangerous Drugs"? You think you have bad publicity over crime and murder now? Get ahead of the curve and legalize marijuana now.
Posted 8 April 2024, 9:45 p.m. Suggest removal
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