In a week ending October, the deadliest month for the year, ex Prime Minister Basdeo Panday might consider relaxing marijuana laws while COP leader Winston Dookeran while touring the Laventille West constituency. Elections 2007 in Trinidad is scheduled for next Monday, November 5.
In an interview on Synergy television in Trinidad during a youth programme Panday discussed the need to revisit the times in Trinidad when marijuana was not considered illegal. Panday however still maintains a hard stance on all other narcotics including cocaine.According to the Express, Panday said, "It never was a problem. That is the strange thing about it. I think we ought to go back and study that". Panday was relating to back in the days after people worked in the fields all week, they would smoke ganja in a chillum and pass it around.
In other news, Winston Dookeran, the leader of the COP party was threatened to be kidnapped in the Laventille West constituency on a walkabout with COP local candidate Dr Sharon-Ann Gopaul McNicol. After being welcomed the COP supporters were initially disbarred from entering the area, and then were allowed a short while after.
Another report by the COP was made to the Commissioner of Police, Trevor Paul, asking for security. This after Laventille West candidate St. Clair was beaten recently.
