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Caribbean island plans to sell drugs to tourists

This way for baggage collection, this way for drugs

The Caribbean island of Jamaica is planning to install marijuana-dispensing kiosks for tourists in order to regulate a growing drug market and to bring in more government revenue.

Small amounts of the drug were recently legalised by the island’s government.

Jamaica’s new Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) is drawing up plans for the kiosks to be situated at airports and seaports, manned by medical personnel.

That staff member would grant tourists who have a prescription for medical marijuana from abroad to purchase a permit to use or carry up to two ounces of marijuana whilst in the country, The Independent reports.

“If they don’t have a prescription, then they can do what we call ‘self-declare’, and this will allow them to have the two ounces while they are here,” said a CLA official.

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