EVEN THE INCARCERATED want marijuana to remain an illegal drug.
Director of the Criminal Justice Research and Planning Unit in the Office of the Attorney General, Cheryl Willoughby, said this was based on feedback, including from individuals serving time at Her Majesty’s Prisons Dodds.
She said that in 2015 her office conducted a survey to examine the extent of marijuana use in Barbados and whether or not respondents believed the drug should be decriminalised.
“We went into the Psychiatric Hospital, Verdun House, we also went into the prison and we spoke to people incarcerated not only for drugs, but for serious crimes. Some of the recommendations that we put out came from those inmates and some of them begged us to keep marijuana as an illegal drug,” Willoughby said. (TG)
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