John....when you see things like you quoted:

"Robert L. DuPont is the president of the Institute for Behavior and Health and the first director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse."

Remember that so many of these "Institutes" are just made up of one guy, his girlfriend, and their maid who just got out of rehab. There is nothing to them. They have no staff, no name, no budget, just a name and a website. They sound good though online.

It is truly unbelievable that in 2018 anybody would still support the current prohibition on marijuana. I dont smoke - but see nothing wrong with others doing so.

Remember there is a BIG difference between legalization and to decriminalize.

For example:

Alcohol is legal.
Can you buy it in a food store? No.
Can your 10 year old nephew buy it in a liquor store? No.

Advertising your business is legal.
Can your attorney put an ad in this newspaper about the services his Firm offers or which areas of law they specialize in? No. It is illegal to advertise attorney services in the Bahamas.
It is also illegal for an attorney to take your lawsuit case and agree for you to pay him from your "assured" payment ordered by the Court - even if he agrees beforehand that you would owe him nothing if he loses your case.

So, you see, there are all sorts of subtle things in criminal law. The law is not just a bunch of breaker switches that are either ON or OFF. 100% or 0%.

So decriminalizing marijuana can be setup with a host of caveats - such as you cannot just lounge around in Rawson Square smoking ya spliff.

The best thing would be to say, if you are in the privacy of your home or car or on a scantly populated beach or otherwise simply not just overtly displaying yourself smoking marijuana then the police will not bother you. No stop and frisk. No home searches or car searches turning up a few ounces and then the person's life is ruined.

But so many take pleasure in ruining other people's lives - especially people who "don't count" like hood people. Nobody cares about them, i guess. They are poor and black - so people say let them rot in jail.

Tal it is rare that you and i agree, but today is one such day. I applaud those working to decriminalize this for their efforts to save our taxpayer dollars spent on ambulance fuel. It is a long drive from PMH to Fox Hill and back and i would be too afraid to venture a guess at our annual costs for this. No wonder we can only afford to give some students tablets, but not all.

The other side of this is money making by lawyers which needs no explanation. Isn't it curious how the population at Fox Hill seems to always stay between certain minimums and maximums. Never a case where some have to actually sleep in tents due to lack of room and never an empty cell either. Probably just coincidence though :-)

As you see here also there were very few women in attendance. Bahamian mothers know their place under Shariah Law. They ensure their families give 10% to the pastors dem to preach to everyone how they should be more perfect like them and like God. Besides, you never see a pastor's child going to prison - so they must be Godly :-)

So keep paying your tithes and your VAT and try make friends with doctors and nurses in the hospital and invite them to dinner sometimes so they be extra friendly if your son (a potential sinner) should end up there.

ThisIsOurs : Begging to differ with you, i have no sympathy for them. There is in fact no such thing as the "small man" because the "small man's" "small man" is big enough to reach the cervix, and baby food ain't free - so money is not his problem.

The dude says ... "Mr Aranha, meanwhile, informed BOB shareholders that "moderate growth targets" set by the Board were not being met due to commercial banking sector competition and ..."

Mr. Aranha - here is a news flash for ya. you have no competition. Have you visited other banks in Nassau, Freeport, and Abaco? They have MANY teller stations empty and dozens of people waiting on lines for over an hour for the two (sometimes one) tellers to serve them. God help you if one gats to check with a supervisor.

put some damn tellers in your teller stations and run these Canadian banks out of business!!!!!!!!!

Why not? Won't cost much. Tellers only get paid like about three Fox Mints per hour. So that's cheap.

So the Govt is basically saying that "cotton pickin" minds cannot understand the concept of investment risk and therefore are unable to benefit when small companies grow big.

It is not possible to explain to "the common man" that sometimes companies go out of business like Carl's Jr ?

Nope. U need to be a lawyer, doctor, or MP to understand dese tings.

You will see. That boy who gat Centerville but cant afford Bamboo, in five years he ga be teaching class at NYSE.

Bogart & Sheeprunner - yinnah is too smart for dese Bahamalands. Immigration ga deport yall first before u cause too much people to wake up and realize they gettin goosey.

Graham keep tellin people dey rich wit aragonite and oil, but i guess they just love dem $200 a week cashier job too much :-)

The article says "The Government's Aliv sell-off has come under criticism for excluding retail (individual) investors, a strategy that was previously justified on the basis that the mobile operator was a 'start-up' and not suitable for 'less sophisticated' investors."

So, in other words, not appropriate for the common uneducated negro.

Should we then just return to British rule if the racism is going to continue under a black government?

Stay tuned next week for an exciting new episode of "New Excuses for Nada". A ten part series made for television. If you have satellite you can watch the commercial free version.

DEDDIE...if they don't work for you then you have no problem. Whomever single person if a "trading as" business or the directors in the case of a company are the ones who will pay or go to jail.

Being a director of a company is more of a responsibility than many realize.

The dude says "...and home owners that may be employing someone, all that does is cause people to get a bigger rock to hide the issue."

Is that like in the 80's when drug dealers got faster "fast" boats? We hide people under rocks now do we? We used to sell them "rocks". Is there any other illegal thing we can do to brutalize them that "...we need to be careful about..." not enforcing the law on?

If they love the situation so much then why don't they operate their businesses in those other countries? Do they realize the Bahamas is becoming more and more like those other countries as we import more of their people?

But i'm sure they don't care. They rake in their profits and deposit abroad. Once the Bahamas goes to Hell, these millionaires can just move to Switzerland and leave Bahamians here to get chopped up.

Hopefully PM Minnis will see even more clearly how illegals are destroying this country now that his eye surgery just completed.