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Jamaica to Decriminalize Weed
An employee weighs portions of retail marijuana to be packaged and sold at 3D Cannabis Center in Denver, Dec. 31, 2013. (Brennan Linsley/AP Photo)
(Time) – Smoking ganja could be a minor infraction in the ganja-growing nation by the end of the summer.
Possession of marijuana is soon to be decriminalized in Jamaica, where the plant has remained banned despite being grown widely across the island.
“Cabinet approved certain changes to the law relating to ganja,” Minister of Justice Mark Golding said in a news conference Thursday. “These relate to possession of small quantities of ganja for personal use, the smoking of ganja in private places and the use of ganja for medical-medicinal purposes.”
Under the amended law, set to be formally changed this summer, possession of pot will be punishable by a small fine.
