Sixteen representatives of several Rastafarian organisations on Wednesday met with the Attorney General Basil Williams at his invitation in the AG’s Chambers and a key issue discussed was the decriminalisation of two ounces of marijuana for personal use.
In recent weeks there have been stepped up calls for the decriminalising of the possession of small amounts of the drug for personal and religious use amid a flood of such cases in the court leading to incarceration.
A release on Thursday from the AG’s Chambers said that representatives including the Guyana Healing The Nation Theocracy Party, Guyana Rastafari Council, Twelve Tribes of Israel, House of Nyabinghi, Guyana Rastafari All Mansions (Linden) and a Brooklyn Rastafarian engaged in a
