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. .

The problem we face with marijuana use among first time users in Primary and secondary school is lack of intervention. Without the messaging - because cannibis is not smoked in The Bahamas - until it is legalized there is no intervention doctrine. Why is it that of the thousands of adolescents who take a one-time try with peers company some become entrenched in the behavior. Is it that the peers are already entrenched or is there a network of young users and sellers in the school system or neighborhood environment. Urine tests at school could get us somewhere, only vape THC does not show up during drug tests as it is synthetic and far more THC potent that phyto/plant cannabis or endo or brain made cannabinoid.

Surprised that they are admitting as mist of the world already had that covid jab re-energized latent cancer. The EU is digging for answers to the contract signed with Big Pharma to supply covid vax intill 2028. Thousands of doses arrived here last week with the CDC today declaring vaccinations for 6 months old with out any study on long term death risks.

The wold weed will always be cheaper than taxed weed. All that will matter fir users is paying government for a permit to use and not get locked up. Legalization should mean openness to educate check for use at hospitals registration and give out warnings to those over sixty who smoked cannabis at 4% back then having to face 18 to 50% and psychosis episodes that could result.

The bottom line is that The Bahamas Christian Council remained deaf to the spiritual and human suffering caused by gambling addiction blindsided politically because the moneybiys greases the entire reign of the political spectrum with silence money thus corrupting the Ministry of Health and the Bahamas Medical Association along with Thec Gaming Board of The Bahamas.
Yes they see persons gambling every second for hours each day of the week sparing none as their brains become spewed with Dopermine the reward and pleasure medicine of the brain. That is a spiritual worship of expecting sweer money reward each moment each cent each dollar. When gaming grows from entertainment to a compulsive disorder that you dream of numbers, wake to numbers, ask your children what they dream compulsively gamble at the mention of any number, or see gambling paraphernalia like outdoor TV screens, headlines etc. all aid in handicapping females to gamble mental illness which our political directorate refuse to address according to world standards. I queried a job post at Gaming Board asking whether they knew of Addiction, that they oversee Gaming and the answer was that is not their business.