Sounds like the usual PLP effed up way of passing laws. They screw it up, and another government comes along later and redrafts the law so that it actually makes sense.

After legalization, these jurisdictions experienced the outcome of the below amongst other positives.

addiction and incarceration rates have dropped considerably
there is less crime
police are freed to concentrate on more serious crime (burglary, rape, robbery, murder….)
considerable tax money has been saved and invested in treatment, prevention, and reintegration of treated addicts

“However, it is important to understand that The Misuse of Drugs [Decriminalisation of Cannabis] Amendment Act 2017 does not provide any guarantee that a person will not be stopped when attempting to travel to the United States of America for any reason, including if that person already has a prior conviction for simple possession of cannabis. Such matters are outside of the control of the Government of Bermuda.”

2. Are they still going to arrest me, at least until they take a measurement? If so am I going to the station or will they have a “roadside” test?

3. If it’s already rolled up, how much is 7 grams?

4. If I have 7.1 grams, I’m still going on the stop list?

How many search responses can I refer you to before you run out of answers ?

There’s hundreds of them by the way .

Your source Kevin Sabet is politically and ideologically biased and has been debunked numerous times himself.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/russ-belville/kevin-sabet-is-misleading_b_8192098.html

https://familycouncil.org/?p=11795

You asked for proof ,well here it is. But I’m sure you’ll say that it’s all a load of nonsense.

‘Marijuana has killed a lot more than 0 ‘

There are too many in Bermuda who looked for God and found religion instead. Their high goes beyond reason so there’s no reasoning with them.

A side note: A human adult can eat Cannabis flowers daily without harming themselves and is actually beneficial to their health. A human adult who eats cheeseburgers and fries, drinks alcohol or energy drinks daily has as much of a potential for dying from them as smoking anything daily.

This is a backward law that creates further opportunity for police discrimination. Now the police will have more motive to search a person’s residence out of bias. The whole history of cannabis prohibition is based on discrimination and this law furthers it. Guaranteed there will be more of one part of society searched than the other and then more of them will be caught with possession than the other because they are searched more. It doesn’t matter if someone has 7 grams or more because it is still left up to the officer’s “discretion”.

This backward law also stigmatizes adolescents who get caught with a small amount of Cannabis as addicts and disrupts their lives to go to treatment when treatment is unnecessary. We wouldn’t send a teen to AA if they were caught with a beer. This law will also encourage some children to take cannabis because of their perceived reasoning that they are less likely to get in trouble possessing small amounts.

Shame on PLP for not having the cohones to abolish this backward law once and for all and has been used as a tool to allow discrimination to proliferate. Keeping Cannabis away from children will only work if looked at the same way the Trudeau administration is looking at it in Canada. PLP need to decide whether they are going the backwards route of Jeff Sessions or the forward route of more intelligent laws.