{"id":23398,"date":"2024-10-08T14:08:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T14:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=23398"},"modified":"2024-10-08T14:08:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T14:08:19","slug":"caution-against-incarceration-for-small-marijuana-possession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/caution-against-incarceration-for-small-marijuana-possession\/","title":{"rendered":"Caution Against Incarceration for Small Marijuana Possession"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Saskia Warrick | September 25, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Guyana Police Force has been advised against arresting individuals for possessing small quantities of marijuana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attorney General Anil Nandlall highlighted that such actions are illegal, following amendments to the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Control Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the revised legislation, possession of 1 to 15 grams of marijuana now requires counseling, while possession of 15 to 30 grams mandates community service, with no prison time involved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite this, a recent incident in Region 1 involved the arrest of a man named Coconiah Jupiter, who was found with 4.5 grams of marijuana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jupiter claimed the substance was for medicinal use, yet he was still detained as investigations continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response to this situation, Attorney General Nandlall reiterated the legal protections in place to prevent wrongful detentions and urged the police force to adhere strictly to the law. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The amendments made in November 2022 eliminated custodial sentences for minor possession offenses, reinforcing the need for law enforcement to act within these new legal parameters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Saskia Warrick | September 25, 2024 The Guyana Police Force has been advised against arresting individuals for possessing small quantities of marijuana. Attorney General Anil Nandlall highlighted that such&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23399,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23398\/revisions\/23399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}