It's also because of our backward Judges, they should know the law and should know better, they, and the police are afraid that without arresting, charging and prosecuting these simple possessions they will have to actually do serious work. Finish the Adrian Gibson case.

Exemplifying the absurdity if the Davis party

What most Bahamians do not know is that our nation has sign more than one treaty with the U.S. government to fight drug trafficking in our region of the world with marijuana named in the treaties as one of the illegal substances not to be trafficked, sold or otherwise made available in either country (Bahamas or U.S.) for recreational use.

Doofus AG Pinder no doubt got the shock of his life when this was drawn to his attention by the first Trump administration. Now Trump, RFK Jr. and DeSantis are planning an all out attack against legalizing the sale of marijuana for recreational use in every state of the U.S.A. Apparently new medical studies have conclusively determined that there is indeed a direct link between the increased use of marijuana by casual users and the number of those users who are being diagnosed with schizophrenia and other mental disorders. I suspect this is especially the case for young people as well as more frequent (heavy) users. It seems the studies have also concluded that frequent casual users are more inclined to move on to the use of other illegal narco substances.

Based on my understanding the smuggling of marijuana across borders has declined deeply since the 20+ States in the US legalized recreational use. The biggest issue now is the smuggling of drugs like Methamphetamine, Cocaine, Fentanyl, MDMA & Heroin. These are the drugs the US & Bahamas should be focused on.

Also, your 'medical studies' are old news and have been the center of debate for many years without any definitive proof except for high risk individuals who have already been diagnosed with Schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders. The gateway drug argument has been going on for as long as I've been alive - which sadly for me, is a very long time.

your medical studies fall into the same nonsensical category as trump/rfkjr's tylenol causes autism.... pure rubbish. marijuana is a far more healthy "drug" than alcohol. The Bahamas needs to stop wasting policing efforts on marijuana and start focusing on farming the very lucrative marijuana crop.

I guess the FBI must be wrong when they say over 80% of the mass shooting casualties in the U.S. since 1985 were committed by persons later found out to have been heavy users (frequent smokers) of marijuana from their teen years onwards. Keep in mind too that smoking a lot of ganja will not only fry your brain, but will also cause unsightly hair to grow on your back as well as your chest.

Given that over 50% of the US population currently smoke marijuana (or have smoked it in the past), your numbers (if true) are not surprising, and are written to skew the actual picture. That's like saying 80% of the people who die in car crashes eat sushi, when only 50% of the population like to eat sushi. Eating sushi (or not eating it) is not a causative factor for dying in a car crash. - Get it ??

**Backward ever, forward never!** Stupid does as stupid is.