Legalise ganja but protect vulnerable
Claudia Gardner, Assignment Coordinator
WESTERN BUREAU:While not objecting to the ongoing bid to legalise ganja in Jamaica, some key stakeholders in Westmoreland say the process has to be properly managed to protect the most vulnerable.
"I think it (legalisation) is going to happen ultimately. But in the process, I think, as a nation, we have to protect the most vulnerable of our society," said the Reverend Carlton Wilson, chairman of the Westmoreland Ministers Fraternal, while speaking at a recent Gleaner 'State of the Capital' Editors' Forum in Savanna-la-Mar.
"One of the challenges we are going to face, though, is that many times, there are persons with psychotic problems that we would have to protect from that because it would only aggravate the situation," continued Wilson.
"And as a nation, I think if we are going to go ahead with decriminalisation, I think it would have to be well structured. I...
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