Dear Editor,

 “Once identification is verified, the person should be granted bail on his or her own recognisance,” the national security minister Peter Bunting said.

Why this convolution?  Just do not arrest the people as most youth will not have any ID when caught with, or smoking a spliff.

Just say ‘do not arrest people for these small quantities of ganja’.

Ganja spliff and ‘badwud’ (expletives) are two oppressive and backward pieces of legislation that the police use against poor people, sometimes killing or maiming them in the process.

Some politicians are hypocrites who merely want to milk the ganja law until close to election for votes.

We need a revolution; we need a turnaround in the thinking of the Government and its appendages for any meaningful change to take place, so that others will not meet the same fate as Mario Deane at the hands of the police.

Where are the enlightened voices in parliament such as “plain clothes Rasta” Mike Henry (according to poet Mutaburuka).

Where is Omar Davies who is a student of the “stepping razor” Peter Tosh. Will Omar say, like Tosh, “legalise it and I will advertise it.”

Bunting and justice minister Mark Golding know what has to be done, but are they are either taking the wrong advice or are mere cowards.

The Prime Minister should, without much discussion, announce “no more arrests for small quantities of ganja and badwud”.

Sister P would go down in history as the Prime Minister who removed a piece of the chain from around black people in Jamaica. What better time to do this than now when Marcus Garvey is being celebrated.

Michael Spence