The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has said that if marijuana possession is not to be decriminalised, then the sentencing policy for narcotic offences needs urgent revision.
A release yesterday from the GHRA said that while the recent categorical rejection by the Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee of the possibility of decriminalising the use and possession of marijuana, may be met with a mixed reception, the incoherent and unfair manner in which the law is currently applied must surely be a matter of universal discomfort.
The GHRA said that it remains concerned over the disproportionate harshness of sentencing for possession of marijuana in contrast
