Too little too late and unwanted as regards the damage Gambling has at a macro, micro and personal level here in The Bahamas. In Ghana, Africa, researchers are reviewing data that suggests children of gambling addicted parents tend to experience greater bouts of life consuming gambling addiction as a sole entity for survival.
Early in the discussions on legalized gambling I published articles requesting that the government review the Austrailian Commission on Gambling factsheet after comprehensive study. It was found that Fambling destroyed the lives of those in the Outer Territories at a macro level similar to our family Islands. The results came back swiftly from MPs that Out Islands had lost communities, heritage , standards of home upkeep and destroyed banking savings accounts.
On Canada, it was vital to create a Gambling Commission that included Health, and Education as just as vital to government taxes and Gaming profits and growth whereby the policy included safety net intervention and recovery mechanisms independent of gaming houses. The Gaming Board of The Bahamas has failed 100% in protecting the Bahamian people as the policy for help was negated by both. governments. Australians also noted the need to protect governance and influence pedaling by the billion dollar Gaming Industry.
The American Association of Psychiatry lists gambling as DSM-5 same as Cocaine Addiction is having the power to destroy personal finances, family relationships, create health issues cause social and moral decay and place many on Social Welfare. Yet the political directorate refuses to address Gambling as the premier mental Issue of the Bahamas. All of these issues I personally addressed to MPs by letter of the former administration and never received a single reply.

Intimacy among young females interested in securing a male that will father her children and help ensure home security would so all in her power to make her bed satisfies her prospective husband and to encourage his sexual fulfillment remains with her pleasure. Imagine that female acting like can ape demanding he must ask first and it is her yes or no. No man will marry an ape.

The Word of God in the Bibke says what it does about marriage wivesxand husbands. So we have these new gods rewriting their own version of humanity. These new laws make women apes in bed an an element of fear rather than intimacy. Men biologically while sleeping with his wife may get an erection. So now he has to stop then ask permission. This form of intimacy is not rape but turns a wife into an ape.

The Bahamas Christian Council would be shocked if it's members were to visit the Night Club scenes where adults mingle and entertain themselves. Young females are more likely to pass as adults than school aged boys. There, wild wild parties take place. And the school system and street sold Marijuana gets the blame for school kids engaging in adult recreational night life. Some are ruined forever. In the USA, ID rules the night uncompromisingly.
Adults over the age of 25 face legal and societal stigmas. The long term harm effects are the same as cigarettes in the long term. Cigarette smokers consume about ten sticks a day. One Marijuana shallow inhale calmness begins in two minutes and lasts up to five hours. All based on THC/CBD percentages and personal tolerance which is never an absolute value, that is why regular pharmacists refuse to get involved. XX mg per XX kilo of body weight just does not work in dosing Marijuana.
The problem CBD capsules or Ingestion or Sublingual onset varies based food intake from 25 to 60 minutes with a bio availability of 10 percent.Most is just passed out bit it gets technical with the Liver Organ barrier and break down codes.
Because Marijuana delays all response cognition times in speech, walking, firearm use and driving certain conditions Marijuana use is prohibited. It just slows you down too much and takes off that alertness and care.

The Bahamas teen pop culture happens to be psychedelics in pill firm. Ecstasy Methamphetamines (molly) that makes kids really trip out. They are popular in Mexico, Europe and the all night lab scenes. They cause a total trip out or even death. The USA Embassy at one time did keep The Bahamas informed on what is new there that us happening here by way of tourism. Taxi Drivers are most afraid of those tourists who get soaked out on poly mixtures out side of themselves then come to as a different person. Club drugs are dangerous in the school system, but education needs to return to those impressionable minds. You see them walking the streets having a living complete dialogue with active memories. The streets call the lab produced chemical additive to Marijuana Lizard Tail. For this reason alone Government must step in for quality control to avoid Meth in drinks or an innocent smoke with horrible night club culture crew. This rarely happens with our street sold Marijuana.

There exists the Hobby Horse Race Track symptoms of the 1070s that gave a negative impact on Marijuana use in New Providence. Those young fellas that worked the inner sanctum knew too well Horse medications for pain that could tranquilize a human. My boys dem would take the pills they called qualoads mixed with alcohol then Marijuana and make quite a spectacle of themselves. And of course Marijuana got the blame. The Race Track crew created a counter culture of rebellion after its closure. That popular or POP Culture spawned the Dread Locks just drifting young men who once fed, watered, groomed and cleaned stables. Again, we are looking at a period just moving out of the 60s where education was not as important as simply bringing home a meal and being a provider of provisions. Those coming into the 70s era of Education from the 60s were locked out of advancements and mobility.
Rastafarian were not the nasty simply dread Locks ill disciplined criminal hoodlums.
Marijuana alone simply gave you an appetite that is why AIDS and persons on cancer treatment could use it without the side effects of deadly man created drugs.
Marijuana alone at medical low THC high CBD is safer than opioids for the varying degrees of sustained pain after nerve damage due to bodily deep puncture injuries and cancers of the flesh.
Now, because Marijuana will mildly subdue you for up to 5 hours it is devastating as we have seen these past 50 years on persons who regularly smoke it from adolescence. In adolescents short term memory is wasted so check any job across The Bahamas and observe the tardy who only want to rest on the job.
Marijuana goes deep into knowledge of the Vagus Nerve, which organs it controls, to relieve stress. Cortisol levels are high in Bahamians because New Providence is so densely toxic with stressers. No Rastafarian in history has died from Marijuana and they gave been smoking the flower along with humanity for eons.
Gateway drugs in our community begin with parents not monitoring their kids activities. Marijuana has been on every street corner for 55 years and is still there. Almost every Bahamian adolescent has tried it at least once. But to have sustained use so as to impact education we must check that household and neiborhood environment. Not decriminalizing Marijuana will not take it off the street but as in other jurisductions Brave must take it under government control to curb the hundreds of Marijuana sales turf murders.

The drug business class gunmen around the world and different regions use gun violence to influence national policies or to strong arm their growing or sales area with some having international touch ya ability. Guns mostly flow into The Bahamas by locals for profit after acquiring them from the streets where they a plentiful and readily available. Only the clean guns bought from a store could be traced to buyer so the underground is the main supplier.
The dangerous gunmen are the robbers of innocent civilians. They are the economic gunmen. They maintain discipline and secrecy, valuing to enjoy their life. They would maim and kill to pay just a bill or purchase an item.

So stop selling cars.

For Bahamian adolescent male, gun is a symbol of masculinity. In this female and rainbow dominated world makes face gun becomes the only manhood. The gun culture begins early in a boy's life that female lead households have multi-daddys but none serve as father the protector, the guide the positive bond and leader of masculinity.
So adolescent young men huddle together playing with bullets fascinated by their smooth touch, pointed or dull tip and realize the weight if power, terror, control, macho, bigness, invincibility and control factor it represents. Then each boy testosterone flowing develops his masculinity around having one in his waist as an Alpha Male Leader. Boys will follow him and girls will adore him as a pack leader.
The down side. The young gun owner after working to purchase one, $1,500.00 to $4,000.00 depending on the sophistication of chip, modifications, rounds, color, stopping power, rounds fired per minute. Some young men move on to go beyond mere fascination to terror reputation making themselves also marked men. Driven by females adrenaline rush for danger gun power also needs money.
The reputation as a shooter means you live sleepless nights moving from safe location to the next always laying low avoiding both the Police and impending revenge death that is sure to come. With one life cycle ended living on as talking piece of entertainment exploits of who he spank and how many spank into him,soon another will enter the gun world. A short stressed out impoverished regretful life to live as street movie entertainer, only in this movie you star only once, a body bag transfers you to the grave and the streets big up another hero to die.

The greatest threat to Bahamian females is still to reach our females intellectuals. Bahamian females have lost about 3.5 billion dollars to gambling. Both PLP and FNM have failed in protecting females through Problem Gambling programs Paid for by Gaming Houses for indiscriminately not warning that they face an addiction as powerful as cocaine in producing mental health calamities. .