The home secretary said she wanted to reverse Tony Blair’s 2004 downgrading of the drug because of “uncertainty” over its impact on mental health.
Even though reports find little or no, causal link between psychotic illness, including schizophrenia, and cannabis use and the Council chairman Sir Michael Rawlings saying that the strength of things like skunk hasn’t really changed very much since the downgrade in 2004
But all this begs the question, what are the implications for the Jamaican community of musicians currently operating within the UK.
It is a well know fact that Marijuana is a major part of the Jamaican music culture, how will stiffening the penalties affect the growth of the thriving Reggae/Dancehall society?
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