Jamaica Eases Marijuana Law

Jamaica, long associated with a vibrant pot-smoking culture, passed a law decriminalizing possession of small amounts of ganja. "Ganja law gets green light," the Jamaican Observer said in its online version. Minister of National Security Peter Bunting said the change came after an "elephantine" slog through parliament that took decades. "To describe this Bill?s development as elephantine, is to label it in euphemistic terms since the Parliamentary ...