Do you know America has an annual consumption of $100 Billion in illegal drugs? Do you know most of America’s drugs com from Mexico? Do you know that many towns and cities in Mexico have been crippled or destroyed by drug wars? Do you know that over 160,000 (yes almost half the population of the Bahamas) have been killed in drug related murders over the past decade? Do you know that no one is off limits in these murders? Victims include politicians, judges, soldiers, policemen, rival cartel members, farm workers, college students and even young children. Is Mexico better off for its drug trade? Not in the parts where illegal drugs are cultivated or trafficking across the boarder takes place. One Hundred Billion is a lot of money. It’s 15 times the national debt of this country. One Hundred Billion can build at least 35 Bah Mar’s even with delays and cost overruns. It can rebuild every hospital and school in the country and repair every road. And if shared among them, every Bahamian can get near $300 Thousand in cold, hard cash. And what’s the point? Tried carefully when venturing into strange and unknown territory. Even some of the US towns have said ‘ the legalization of marijuana has caused criminals to move in and good citizens to move out.’

you are a natural jack ass and your posts confirm it...you have sitting judges (in the US) running guns and weapons and drugs to the Bahamas and also policemen doing the same thing (US policemen) to the Bahamas and you still want blame our young Bahamian youth (who themselves are victims of crime and drug abuse. Many (young Bahamians) who have never let the rocks of the island they were born on..shame...shame on you sheeprundat!

The police may not have the authority to search diplomatic pouches, they have the authority to monitor and patrol those who import them. And as China has wowed to execute every foreigner operating contrary to its laws in its country. And time this country stop putting all its trust and. Confidence in every foreigner that comes here with a briefcase and wearing a necktie. It can’t be any clothan that.

If one (yea you) would look at the murder statistics from November 2017 to present, you would notice that there is a significant drop on the number of murders. In fact that period (November 1 to present may be a period where the least amount of murders occurred over that period of time in 10 years. So the murder rate in the Bahamas is definitely DOWN! That being said the question next is was the decline in murders due to the fact that some very notorious killers have themselves been murdered or received death threats or was it a fact that the police are making a more concentrated effort and they too are making a dent in crime, especially murders. Let there be no doubt thT the police response time, especially to serious crime has improved, significantly. And the statistics bare out the fact that the detection rate for murders have improved. To the point that the police claim that suspects for all three murders on the island of Grand Bahama are in custody. The all out assault on gangs and gang leaders is paying dividends. And the arrest and charges being brought against foreigners in the Northern Bahamas is testimony that the country must not only protect itself from the illegals sneaking in in the south, but also the guns and ammunition smuggling in the North and North West. Someone in the US said immigration laws cannot be enforced, but at least immigration and crime can be controlled.

Any many Rastafarians will not smoke what is being sold on the streets of The Bahamas for marijuana. It has been tampered with, molested and enhanced for its hallucinating effects. Its more like substituting communion wine in the church with henessy or gin.

tal russel "

Comrades, has wonder why with a growing population Bahamalander Rastafarians are never much, if at all, in the news committing crimes? I say if this be the truth - lets work at sprungin up more Rastafarians. Amen! Upvote0
.**TAL..strange that you would draw the Rastas into this discussion about marijuana and then to include crime. Do you know that the Bahamian Rastafarians were the ones most persecuted in this country for the use of marijuana, growing dredlocks and crime?********

After Bob Marley (YES, The same Bob Marley who the CIA killed by injecting him with a virus in a vial hidden in a pair of converse tennis they gave him as a gift), visited the Bahamas in the late 1970's many young men were drawn to the Rastafarian tradition of smoking marijuana and growing dreadlocks. And as they joined 'the camp', they were given a bicycle and a bag of peanuts or box of fruits to sell on the streets of Nassau. They were known for wearing their green Dee Cee pants (with the seams sewn in. But the police did not take a liking to these young men. They would pull up on them, snatch them of their bicycles and throw them in the back or the police car. Sometimes they were lucky to have their fruits or peanuts join them on the trip to the police station, where they were searched and abused, physically by the police. Some were kept overnight and some were released a few hours later. Some had their dreadlocks cut off without even being charged with a crime and when they returned, more often than not, their bicycle was gone, disappeared into the community, stripped, maybe or painted and disguised that way. The police rationale for targeting and harassing the Rastas were that the Rastas recruit young men, then send them out to commit crimes. The police also claim that the Rastas harbored and hid known criminals known criminals in their camp. Many times after a crime was committed the victim would be called to the station to identify a suspect, only to find it was a Rasta who looked nothing like what they described to the police. So to make a long story short The Rastafarians had to withdraw their people from the world. They had to be separate and apart. A people set aside. The ones you see on the street now are the survivors of generations of persecution by the police and even rejection by society. And for the most part they are not involved in crime! And, like the sun, most disappear at sunset, and that is for their own safety. They consider marijuana to be sacred plant and use it in their worship ceremony. Most likely the Rastas will not agree with the way marijuana is abused today by the general population, especially when it is consumed with alcohol.

First of all I am not a bishop so I don't accept that responsibility, but that doesn't preclude my calling those who have ears to salvation. Second, smoking weed is not one of my vices (not to say it is a vice ore even a vice to everyone that smokes it)...but in the end times we will be judged by our faith and it will be tested.

Look at the post above yours I gave scripture and verse

Isiah 55:12 says you will live in peace and joy. The mountains and hills will burst out in songs and the trees will clap their hands with joy.

Let’s continue to peel back the onion skin of history while trying to move forward and see who’s time it is to cry now. For the Bible says ‘ even the trees (marijuana,cotton and coffee ). Knew your sorrow, they saw your tears and they heard your weeping!