Belize’s House of Representatives has approved a measure to decriminalize cannabis possession up to 10 grams and legalize industrial hemp production, according to a News 7 Belize report. If approved, the measure would also make cannabis consumption in private subject to non-criminal fines.
The measure has received bi-partisan support, according to the report, with Opposition Leader Juan Antonio Briceño saying his colleagues would back the plan because they “strongly believe” citizens should no longer be jailed “for smoking a stick of weed.”
“As for me, my difficulty with the current legislation is that it stops at decriminalization,” he said in the report. “I feel that it would been better if we had done all the studies and made the preparations to go even further and move towards the legalization of marijuana.”
Prime Minister Dean Barrow, said that while the House approval was a small first step – and he was expecting pushback from some groups – such as churches – he was “excited” to see movement on the measure.
“I feel as both a matter of conviction that it is something good to do, but also that the society as a whole will support it,” he told Nation News.
The measure still needs to be approved by the Senate and, after that, will head to the desk of Governor General Sir Colville Young.
We have had legal medical and now recreational cannabis legal in oregon for about 10 years and also many acres of hemp now being produced and the world has not ended! It has brought a degree of rural hope and prosperity to Oregon, Washington, Colorado and now Nevada and California. NO PROBLEMS have developed. The comment about the push back by churches is key here, as the idea that cannabis/hemp/marijuana is bad is strictly a religious belief, not a scientific one and it is based on racial prejudice . The Pope Banned hemp use in the 12 th. century so there you go. How can any free country with a democracy and a constitution make growing any form of cannabis a crime. Belize needs to look at the facts that there has been no problem with legalization on the entire U.S. west coast including Alaska. Belize could have an active hemp industry, even Jamaica has legalized medical marijuana to sell to tourists.
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