Parliament should cut the vacation and deal with the issues
Dear Editor,
Some commendation is due to the Government following the announced new treatment of people found in possession of, or smoking ganja. Now they will be issued a summons after identification by a justice of the peace or at a police station.
But some 18 days have passed since Mario Deane’s tragic death and I would like to know why both houses of Parliament have not returned from summer vacation to be polled about the declaration of an amnesty until the proposed legislation to decriminalise possession is promulgated into law?
Furthermore, it has been 31 months since MP Raymond Pryce moved the motion for the development of a ganja industry for Jamaica. Where has the Government reached in the development towards this end?
We hear the pain as mothers cry for sons brutalised. The answer is amnesty.
Orville Silvera
Chairman, Ganja Future Growers and Producers Association
kubwemoja@gmail.com