Usain Bolt has told a German tabloid newspaper that he used marijuana when he was a young teen.

The German tabloid Bild reported yesterday that the Jamaican sprint phenomenon used the recreational drug during his formative years, but he has not touched it since.

"When you're a child in Jamaica, you learn how to roll a joint," he said. "Everyone tried marijuana, including me, but I was really young."

I am wondering of all the statements he said in his interview why the foreign press wants to "dwell" on this one. I notice they didn't report him saying that he credits his speed from all the "natural foods" he has eaten as a child.

Folks always looking for news. People like Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt can't have "natural talent" their always has to be someone searching for something else.

With the World Championships set for Berlin in August, Bolt has his sights set on winning three gold medals again as he did in Beijing in the 100, 200, and men's 4x100 relay.

"I want to become a legend," he said. "I want to propel athletics to a new dimension."

Source: Jamaican Observer

Students find Creative Ways To Smuggle Drugs

Well, I gotta give it to them, Students have found some really creative ways to smuggle drugs into the classrooms. The Star has reported that Students have brought illicit substances onto the school grounds in ties, inhalers, pens, even asthma pumps.

"The police say that several students in Schools in Portmore, St. Catherine, have been arrested and charged for possession and smoking of marijuana since January. Most of these arrests were made on school compounds or nearby."


"The police will have our support...We cannot allow one student with weed to infect the other students, we would want the police to have a zero tolerance...," he said."

Legalize It, Don't Despise It

Well, I don't know I feel about this article. According to thewest.com Jamaican legislation is considering legalizing marijuana. I feel that growing up in Jamaica, marijuana has always been around. Now I read that Jamaica is now considering legalizing it. I have mixed feelings about this. Personally I feel it will bring good money to the country.

Then on the flipside I feel that this will increase the criminal element in the country.

I don't know if anyone remembers that tobacco and alcohol were one taboo items. People had to hide and manufacturer alcohol (in some states) in the hills (moonshine). Once tobacco farming became popular (and a glut happened in the market) then the price went down.

I wonder how much would one charge for a marijuana joint? In Jamaica they don't use little papers. I have seen people use newspaper and once I saw someone use a paper bag.

In 2003, a government commission recommended legalising marijuana in small amounts for personal use. But lawmakers never acted, saying legalisation might entail loss of their country's US anti-drug certification. Countries that lose it face economic sanctions. A US State Department report on Friday said Jamaica is the largest producer of marijuana in the Caribbean and a major hub for drugs bound for the US.

Ganja

I have been blogging for over 2 years now. This is only my second post on marijuana. I just get upset sometimes when people feel that marijuana is part of a tourist package. This is a plant that grows throughout many tropical countries.

The use of marijuana is as old as the history of man and dates to the prehistoric period. Marijuana is closely connected with the history and development of some of the oldest nations on earth.

It has played a significant role in the religions and cultures of Africa, the Middle East, India, and China Richard E. Schultes, a prominent researcher in the field of psychoactive plants, said in an article he wrote entitled "Man and Marijuana":

"...that early man experimented with all plant materials that he could chew and could not have avoided discovering the properties of cannabis (marijuana), for in his quest for seeds and oil, he certainly ate the sticky tops of the plant. Upon eating hemp the euphoric, ecstatic and hallucinatory aspects may have introduced man to an other-worldly plane from which emerged religious beliefs, perhaps even the concept of deity.

The plant became accepted as a special gift of the gods, a sacred medium for communion with the spiritual world and as such it has remained in some cultures to the present."

It is interesting that like the Cocoa Plant that this herbal plant was not used as a recreational drug by the Indians that first inhabited most of these countries. "It is said that the Assyrians used hemp (marijuana) as incense in the seventh or eighth century before Christ and called it 'Qunubu', a term apparently borrowed from an old East Iranian word 'Konaba', the same as the Scythian name 'cannabis'." (Plants of the Gods - Origin of Hallucinogenic Use by Richard E. Schultes and Albert Hoff

Jamaica's Presence on the United States list of Major Drug Transit or illicit drug producing countries is because Jamaica's high cultivation of Marijuana and the fact the island remains a transit country for Cocaine.

In my opinion, tourist come with the expectation that it is a "free for all" on the island. This is not true. It is a illegal drug and prosecution is hard and sentences long.