4/20, international Marijuana day
The next news item is not for non-smokers. If you are knowledgeable of international events and culture, you may know that today is International Four Twenty Day. The four stands for the fourth month and twenty represents today’s date. Four Twenty just happens to refer to use of cannabis. The term was coined decades ago by California students who met after school at 4:20 to smoke pot. It is not a small affair, as in Vancouver, Canada over ten thousand persons annually gather near the Vancouver Art gallery to celebrate the day. In Canada, the police department has always been tolerant of marijuana use on this date. In the United States, a popular yearly celebration is held at the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus which also yields about ten thousand enthusiasts of the popular bud. No celebration has been made thus far in the jewel, but the police have charged several individuals for marijuana possession and trafficking today. Last week Friday, News Five went under the cover of darkness with the Belize Defense Force on a raid of a marijuana plantation which was almost ready for consumption. The soldiers dismantled the illegal camp, uprooted one thousand six hundred plants and burned them. Though it seemed like a large catch, it was only a puff in the cloud of cannabis that is grown throughout the country. Since the year began the BDF has burned about a hundred and fifty thousand plants.
Legalize it! Our authorities waste way too much time and resources fighting an unnecessary drug war. I say legalize it and tax it. Just check out a country like Amsterdam. They simply created smoking cafes. You can´t smoke on the street nor in public places, but you can go into special designated cafes to do so. They even have a menu with different types of cannabis. It has boosted tourism and is now a source of income for both the govt and small farmers. Not to mention it has lessened crime by eliminating the dangers associated with trading any product on the black market. Legalize it and let us reap the profits.
Legalize it!
yes legalize it when it comes out to be common it won’t be a thing to war against it. the drug trafficking will stop since you no need to buy it expensive and less killing for it too. i don’t smoke but it make sense like how kinslito says.
De-Criminalize Marijuana…. One ounce or less. After all it’s just a plant, an herb, given to us by nature fo our use. No processing necessary. Peace Up!!!
Well that is the same thing that they are arguing here in Jamaica. Decriminalization of Ganja will take the strain off the police forces so that their efforts may be directed to more dangerous activities, it will put less of a strain on our tax dollars because less people will be incarcerated for posession and it will be a tourist attraction.
legalize it everybody is doing it know adays nd i totally agree with kinslito. also i have been around people who drink and smoke and i have never seen a person who has smoked pot acting as silliy as a drunken man alcohol makes u into a different person pot doesnt. the govt
will benefit also by charging taxes.
kinslito, Amsterdam is niet een land, het is de bestelwagen van DE hoofdstad Nederland
That means that Amsterdam is not a country, but the capital of the Nederland’s.
The government of Belize earned a great deal of money from not legalizing marijuana, they are the big profiteers, so why legalized it in their opinion.
This is also a signal from the government that they care more about the money, than crimes in that country.
We can’t, as long as the International Narcotics Control Board continues to hold us and many other countries by our cojones.
To learn about the United Nations International Narcotics Control Board, visit: http://www.incb.org/incb/en/mandate.html