YOUNG ANTIGUAANS JOIN THE STREETS
There are some young people on the road, lost or abandoned, maybe both. No one in the Ministry of Happiness or the Ministry of Social Services sees them or wants to help them.
It really doesn’t matter whether you want to or not, you are bound by your Ministry portfolio to reach out and help them.
One by one the young men are drifting slowly into madness, sleeping clearly in abandoned places, wandering the streets, the corners of their mouths white and unwashed; he sees someone in the Government.
Young people want more out of life and are dropping out of school again, they don’t see the point of living on the edge of life for life and getting nowhere, not even guaranteed to get any benefits from years of drudgery.
When they are forced to see other young people growing up in their country while they are not, disillusionment sets in and they withdraw from society, some with a slow decline while they stay in work, if they have it, they go nowhere; and others, go out on the streets and become homeless.
With ‘weed’ so readily available to anyone with a few bucks, many young people who have no base, unlike the Rastafari community, smoke on empty stomachs, fall asleep and hallucinate instead of peaceful reasoning and good dreams . These negative states of being soon lead to an unhealthy mind, as shown by many of these young people wandering the streets as we watch them deteriorate.
During open forums prior to the adoption of cannabis legislation, concern was raised about this condition, alerting the forum to the need for rehabilitation centers where these consequences of cannabis misuse could be professionally attended to.
It was even raised in the form of a fee from each licensee to cover this victim of the cannabis trade.
In their rush to implement cannabis legislation to hold meetings with foreign cannabis investor groups, the government, who are mostly old and unfamiliar with ‘weed’, left the door wide open for the systems of the enslavement of the past. come to the fore.
Instead of using the systems in place in the last days of colonial control, where the old leaders created Rural Development (PDO) which bought produce from farmers who were given plots of land to cultivate independently.
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Today’s government has even more agencies to make the development of the cannabis trade even more efficient. CMC can be the agency that grades cannabis, thus allowing the independent Antiguan farmers who chose to excel by providing the high grade product to be paid accordingly. Instead, unlike the past developments of farmers, today’s owners, some of them absent, have our people on their farms, working by the sweat of their brows, planting ‘Barrats’ for a new Massa.
The Ministry of Health, which has been the big sponsor of ‘Medical Cannabis’, should get together with Social Services and the Ministry of Happiness and solve this problem of struggling youth yesterday. It is not time to go back to the days when our young people lived on the High Street begging for their next fix, asking people to kick them and pay them! Take away the corporate cannabis farms for the youth and allow the youth to industrialize, making money from what is now their habit.
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