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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/game-change-jamaica-is-about-to-decriminalize-marijuana/



Game change: Jamaica is about to decriminalize marijuana
Phillip Smith, AlterNet
24 Jan 2015 at 00:10 ET

The island nation most closely associated with marijuana in the popular mind is about to decriminalize it. The Jamaican cabinet Monday approved a bill that would do just that, as well as allow for the creation of medical marijuana and hemp industries.

The bill, the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act of 2015, goes to the Senate tomorrow and will be debated there next Friday.

It would decriminalize the possession of up to two ounces of ganja; allow its use for religious, medical, scientific, and therapeutic purposes; prohibit smoking it in public places; and provide for the granting of licenses for the development of a legal hemp and medical marijuana industry.

While Jamaica is home to the Rastafarian religion, whose sacrament is marijuana, and has high usage rates (9.8% of the adult population, ranking it 10th worldwide, according to the UN), it has been slow to move forward on marijuana law reform.

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1. Sounds like the right idea they have there.

Forbid commercial exploitation as a drug, esp. marketing, let people do what they want with it privately as long as they behave, and encourage commercial exploitation to the max.