'Stop locking up persons for ganja'
Jodi-Ann Gilpin, Staff Reporter
PROFESSOR ARCHIBALD McDonald, principal of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, has called for serious consideration to be given to persons who have been criminally charged for smoking marijuana.
Speaking at the Jamaica Cannabis Conference, which was held at the Faculty of Law at the UWI last week, McDonald stressed that young people, especially, continue to encounter serious challenges in trying to move forward with future endeavours as a result of what he describes as ridiculous offences.
"My own view is that there is a great deal of injustice being meted out to our young people, and so I believe that the Parliament should act. I don't believe it requires anything other than the commissioner of police instructing police officers to stop locking up persons for ganja, and that can be done immediately," he declared.
Criminal possession
"I believe we need to have discussions...
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