Sowande Uhuru calls for decriminalization of marijuana
Sowande, who was an At Large candidate in last year's election under the People's Patriotic Alliance (PPA), made this statement in response to a question posed by the host of the show, Paul ‘Gadiethz’ Peart, asking whether he thought that the decriminalization of marijuana would ever materialise in the Virgin Islands (VI).
Sowande, who was a caller to the popular morning programme, added “if the first world countries say that they are taking out corporal punishment or capital punishment, whether we agree with it or not we’re gonna do it.”
“We follow their lead on everything… if they say it’s ok for same sex marriages, we go ahead and do it” Sowande said.
He remarked that some of those things we don’t have a choice on, but he was really homing in on the issue of the discussion currently taking place in America about the decriminalization of marijuana adding that only after that point some of our leaders will get up and “take the lead on it”.
“We need them to take the lead on it now,” he said “because we have several families down here being persecuted for a simple choice that they’re making and it’s not having an impact on anybody else except for the people who are making that particular choice.”
Sowande, commenting on societies in the first world, noted that they possessed many ailments and this led to their prison populations becoming overflown, added that he thought it was "foolish for us to follow their lead on certain aspects, if they have something good about their society, you can follow that but you don't have to follow every single thing in their society because obviously they have [problems]."
He noted a telling statistic that showed "over 60 percent of people in the United States have tried marijuana before." "It baffles me why you would continue to persecute the majority of your population." he said after noting that statistics locally also show how widespread the use of marijuana is.
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No matter how they cut it down or take it away from us, It will become legal one day soon. As it was in the beginning so it shall be in the end.
i'm not a smoker or someone that use the herbs, not one time i ever smoke or sell it,but i have done my home work & ahve notice they is no harm is the herbs, no man woman or child have even die from it, just google people who died from herbs? none, so why is the bvi government so uptight about it? whats they so afraid of & for? most of you who saying this & that have not one time did your home work about the herbs, you all just say thing & thet, how can you tell people about jesus or the bible if you never read it? so you be telling people hear say? come on bvi, just asking you one time, just research that's my point!