BARBADOS’ FLEDGLING MARIJUANA INDUSTRY could be leading to some of the gun violence.
And for rural Barbadians, the harvesting of marijuana is reaching a level of fright in many villages where police have recently raided and found dozens of the illegal plant.
That was the general feeling when a SUNDAY SUN team recently visited Roach Village and Applewaites in St George, Coach Hill in St John, and Vaughan’s Road in St Joseph to find out how residents were coping with their neighbourhoods becoming part of the drug culture.
It was those areas where special eradication teams of the Royal Barbados Police Force and the Barbados Defence Force carried out operations this year, removing several plants and seedlings.
A young unemployed man sitting in the deeply forested Vaughan’s Road area shared his theory.
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