NEAB Endorses Catholic Church’s Position on Marijuana Legalization

The National Evangelical Association of Belize, NEAB, staged a brief protest this afternoon outside of the National Assembly. The organization has been staunch in its opposition to the legalization of cannabis. While it lacked the strength in numbers that would otherwise give its protest teeth, NEAB is fully supporting the position recently taken by the Catholic Church, that a referendum is absolutely necessary in order to get the pulse of the people on the matter. NEAB, in an accompanying statement, says, “the National Evangelical Association of Belize and its associate churches nationwide express our full endorsement to the statement released by the Catholic Church against turning Belize into a marijuana republic, with doors wide open to cartels in the drug trade”. Earlier this week in a televised statement, Father John Robinson spoke on the Cannabis and Industrial Hemp Control Licensing Act 2022, raising several concerns about that piece of legislation.