Pubdate: Fri, 15 Mar 2013
Source: Daily Nation (Barbados)
Copyright: 2013, Nation Publishing Co. Limited
Contact:  http://www.nationnews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2249
Author: Carol Martindale
Page: 11

DRUG BUST A HOT TOPIC

TO LEGALIZE MARIJUANA or not was a talking point earlier this week 
among NATION online readers when police seized a large quantity of 
drugs at the beach in Fitts Village, St James.

The topic is now being ventilated even more after High Court judge 
Randall Worrell, speaking at Wednesday's National Consultation on the 
Anti-Drug Plan, recommended the legalizing of certain drugs for 
personal use. Some shared their views on this "smoking hot" topic:

Glenn Damon Clarke: "Cannabis oil is currently being used to cure 
cancer. Why can't Barbados legalize marijuana, employ farmers to grow 
it and make this cannabis oil, do our own research on this cure, and 
invite people from all over the world to come here for a full course 
of treatment?

Adrian Holder: "Barbados and some Western countries continue to play 
'Simon says' and they are not informing their people and 
under-educating them in recent world developments. The US, Holland 
and some European countries know the benefits from medicinal and 
commercial products produced from hemp and marijuana. Our misguided 
leaders fail to realize that this plant has enormous potential to put 
Third World countries like Barbados and the Caribbean out of this 
ochestrated recession designed to keep us poor...with stretched 
hands, towards Massa."

Sunday's shoot-out at the St James beach between police and "drug 
men" was like a scene from a Hollywood movie that left some readers 
firing serious shots.

Rossie Scramble Johnson: "This shows that police should be better 
armed and protected with the wearing of bullet proof vests at all 
times. Also this shows that a drug treatment court is only part of 
the solution."

The House of Spartacus (HOS) is still on the minds of some readers, 
especially after two church leaders said they would be trying to get 
the entertainment and sex activity ended.

Roger Manning: "John 8:7 He who is without sin cast the first stone."

Adrian Cumberbatch: "Pastors [Vincent] Wood and [David] Durant have 
not condemned or judged anyone in their comments to the SUNDAY SUN. 
These men as spiritual leaders and spiritual watchmen over this 
island have a responsibility to speak against activities which 
corrupt morals in Barbados.

Why can't we see that what HOS promotes is destroying family values, 
and will cause our youth to have an even more callous view of sex?

Jesus also says, "neither do I condemn you. Go now and leave your life of sin."

Olutoye Walrond: "So here we go again: some of us wanting to 
determine what others should do in private. From what I gather, these 
clubs are voluntary. People choose whether they will visit them or 
not. Nobody is dragged kicking and screaming into them. Those who 
attend them do so because they want to; it's their choice. How can 
the exercise of that choice have any effect on my morals?"
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