So we need a doctor and an expensive pharmacist to to control the weed that grows in the backyard. next thing we will be legislating chamomile and lavender tea :)

This new bill is accurate and is modeled after the cannabis bill in developed countries. These Pharmacist just want their hands in the marijuana cookie jar. They are trained in dispensing western medicine and not what mother earth has to offer for pain relief, seizures and mental issues. I dare say the raster's know more about the medicinal benefits of marijuana use and would make better distributors of marijuana than the Pharmacist. But we have to follow the money with this issue. The Bahamas Pharmaceutical Association should sit small. They have cause the demise of many individuals with the poison they sell labeled as drugs.

The Cannabis Bill, yes, is well measured. After all, The AG Office along with Health and Wellness have foresight based on other jurisductions hindsight. We are late in the game considering that Cannabis has been popularly used here for 70 years. Further, again historically we find ourselves between the all of the greatest producers and consumers of Canada, USA, Jamaica and South America. EU & UK block nations also cultivate, export, and individual's are licensed to use. Cannabis us accepted as a civilized botanical bush medication as it was for thousands of years until USA prohibition agitation from the 1970s. If all goes well The Bahamas Government will control the show with the average Bahamian benefiting and no longer will criminal murderous gangs here have a billion dollar monopoly. Central government control over Cannabis was first used in Uruguay and it immediately cut gang murders down to nearly zero through legalization. If you travel to 40 USA states Medical Cannabis is legal along with about 28 states where Adult Use is also legal. All of Canada is legal. The Bahamas will now be able to regulate, somehow, according to WHO, 147 million Cannabis users, Bahamas included. Also, according to UNODC world drug report, all nations that legslized Cannabis already have a wide distribution of users so there was no major impact of sudden new users. Also, the UN Office found the cultural or indigenous national attitudes of varying peoples hindered the approach to a universal approach to Adolescent use which has negative individual and national economic consequences. Jamaica got a shock recently as Canada refused to import their 'Jamaica Pure'. The name Jamaica as a brand was expected to go international, as millions of the world tourists throughput the decades traveled there to smoke legally at Rastafarian Camps.
cannabahamas@gmail.com, Licensed Bahamian Consultant & Certified Cannabis for Primary Care.

The Cannabis Commissions and Authorities of many states in USA are now having to reign in Alcohol Production Companies for producing and selling Cannabis infused alcoholic beverages as only the Cannabis Industry has a right to dispense Cannabis products as a Controlled Substance.

Caritonr61 All of the facts you stated illustrates that the Bahamas is finally headed to first world status when it comes to Cannabis legislation and it also proves that the Pharmaceutical Association in those countries are not trying to put their hands in the cookie Jar in those countries. It is time for special interest in the Bahamas Pharmaceutical Association to realize that this country is going to move forward and their objections to the changes may not cause their downfall but the awakening of the masses to the uses of natural products such as Cannabis is more likely to cause it.

I ran into a group of young men recently, non could have been older than 22. One made the announcement that he was getting off weed. The others laughed at him, one said "*good luck!*". I thought how sad, likely hooked between 10 and 15, they're all addicted and dont recognize it.

The sale of cannabis is being legislatively treated like the sale of liquor. And the coming explosion in its excessive recreational use will prove to be just as harmful and damaging to our society as alcoholism. The devastating consequences of excessive cannabis use, especially among young people, are already being experienced by many other societies that have shortsightedly legalized its recreational use..

More Bahamians smoke herb than cigarettes right now.

More Bahamians habitually drink hard rum than beer or wine.

Bahamians are already hooked on weed & rum for decades ....... This will only put the last nail in the coffin.

This Bill is designed to make money off tourists, Bahamians can get their dope anyhow.

A driver of a vehicle who is drunk from excessive drinking of beer, wine or liquor is statistically much more likely to cause an accident. Likewise, a driver of a vehicle who is high from excessive smoking of cannabis is statistically much more likely to cause an accident.

Insurance underwriters know these irrefutable facts that are for them, and their re-insurers, ample justification for jacking up auto and other vehicle insurance premiums to outrageously unaffordable levels. The bad policies of this corrupt and most incompetent Davis led PLP government are imposing alarming costs on the Bahamian people in ways that many do not fully appreciate. Of course the much greater toll on our domestic economy from excessive recreational use of cannabis will be a marked lowering of already low productivity levels.

Dr. Smith is simply arguing that the Government should not only rethink legalizing this drug, they should rethink introducing a new sub-specialist in the pharmacy profession who will do more harm. That sub-speciality is ULDP. Unqualified Licensed Dope Pusher.

To qualify to the level of Certification at CAMH one would gave to be fluent in the Human Cannabinoid System, hiw it works to control mood memory and stress. You have to learn the CB1 and CB2 receptors in the brain and body andchow THC and CBD impacts them. You also have to know the bio availability of the Cannabinoids in the body how long they are effective according to the mode if consumption and eventual breakdown. Just the tip.