80lbs of ganja seized at ORIA from two Canadians
(CNS): Over the last two weeks, Customs and Border Control (CBC) have seized just under 80lbs of ganja from two separate smugglers at Owen Roberts International Airport. Both were Canadian nationals, who are now on remand at HMP Northward and HMP Fairbanks. CBC officers stopped the first of the two on his arrival at the airport from Toronto, Canada, on 28 November. An x-ray examination of his bags revealed irregularities and a physical search uncovered 34 clear vacuum-sealed packs containing weed.
The passenger was arrested and later charged with importation and possession with intent to supply 29.15lbs of marijuana. When he appeared before the Summary Court last week, he pleaded guilty to both charges and was remanded in custody pending sentence.
In the second case, CBC officers seized approximately 50lbs of marijuana from a female Canadian national also arriving from Toronto on Thursday, 12 December. She was arrested for importation and possession with intent to supply and appeared before the Summary Court on Monday, where she was remanded to Fairbanks.
CBC Senior Deputy Director Kevin Walton explained that CBS is seeing changing patterns in smuggling. “The rising demand for high-grade marijuana has led to significant changes in smuggling routes and we have seen an increase in importation,” he said.
“The higher the potency of THC, the greater the psychological effects, particularly for marijuana produced in North America. Passengers must remember that while marijuana extracts and tinctures are permitted for medical or therapeutic purposes when prescribed by a medical doctor in the Cayman Islands, the recreational use, possession, and importation of marijuana remain illegal in the Cayman Islands,” he added.
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Cayman has become a haven now for some lowest form humans on this planet !
Canadian eh?
Canadians??? Ya say.
They Canadians just like all the CAYMANIANS on these little Islands! God help us.
In my opinion “They drift wood”.
Well there goes a Merry Green Christmas…
Bust one load and 3 more get by.
I may or may not have hypothetically noticed that a couple hundred pounds of fresh jamaican herb landed last night from my bad boy cousins’ private social media story. Just in time for Christmas eve spending spree.
But hey, let’s keep it illegal so they have a lucrative side hustle that may also bring guns for the ride. Hop over to Jam, buy it bulk at 80 USD/lb and landed it’s 700 KYD/lb wholesale.
Proof that weed rots your brains!
Even Mexico just banned it.
so did Florida last month!!
but the young n dumm here will get what they want.
Show up for work late and stink.. or crash another after while high.
all by big design.
Please seek help. I say this as a friend yet unmet.
Each to their own pleasure I say. And when you compare what alcohol does to your body, the weed is both a medicine and mind expander used in the right way. Even when overindulging, it still won’t pickle your kidneys and liver. Can’t say the same about the devil’s juice though since you subscribe to the usual 1950’s Reefer Madness nonsense.
There is no medically agreed “right way” to use it, unlike alcohol.
Is there not enough carnage on your roads without more stoned drivers?
Canadians Hahahaha. The reverse smugglers!
80lbs of weed and they could have bought one of those THC gummies from our unnamed businesses, and got the same THC hit.
Free the herb !!!
Canadians just as bad as the Colombians. But the local banks love employing em eh!!!
Might as well ditch those Rizlas now. I had a decent 5 skinner planned as well 😒
We used to get Canada’s best. Now we get their losers.
And their shitty donuts, eh.
They really aren’t that great.
This might shock you, but we’ve always gotten a majority of losers from elsewhere that simply misrepresent themselves as their homeland’s best.
Its true that we dont get the best from elsewhere, but the market only buys what it needs, and if there is a need to import people, doesnt that suggest that the market cant find enough/good enough here?
No, they work for practically nothing. That’s why they are employed even though they aren’t qualified.
They’re all losers.
Hosers
Are these returning residents or visitors?
We are devoting our resources to the wrong offenders. We should be legalising ganja, employing elderly and other marginalised folk to grow and process it, and packaging and taxing it. We should be devoting our CBC and RCIPS resources toward detecting and seizing hard drugs, guns, and criminals.
We could actually have something we can export!
Nor would Govt have to borrow every single dollar they spend.
yeay…another huge pointless victory for cbc…..zzzzzzzzzz
cayman needs to get with the time when it comes to ganja consumption.
Go move somewhere else where you can do your drugs legally and keep your stoned backside out of Cayman you useless whiner.
Height of hypocrisy as you turn a blind eye to unrestricted quantities of alcohol sales 7 days a week.
Alcohol possession isn’t a class 1 narcotic earning jail time. That’s an important difference that should inform life choices.
What’s your point? That alcohol, which can be overdosed on and claims Caymanian lives every year, is somehow better and safer for recreational sales than weed?
So we keep weed illegal and allow the black market to profit massively like the failed prohibition on alcohol a century ago?
All of you opposing it sound like Karens who got indoctrinated by reefer madness propaganda in the 1960s.
The war on drugs is a failed effort to criminalize anyone who isn’t an elderly white christian.
It was not always this way. Liquor stores used to be open 10am-7pm, Mon-Sat, end of story. The little gas station in front of Kirk’s had a couple of fridges with beer so if you needed some for your boat on Sunday, you at least had that. A few other places got away with selling on that basis too. It was not legal but it was ignored.
Dart changed all of that by opening West Indies Wine Company at Camana Bay (now closed). They had 80 wines for tasting, and you could buy all of them, and many more, along with accessories for drinking it. Rather than limit WIWC to tasting/serving only on Sunday, they allowed retail sales as well. And they were open 1-9pm. Thus, you could now buy wine (and spirits, and beer they kept in the back) from 1-9pm on Sunday, but only from WIWC.
Then, Peanuts gas station in Red Bay wanted a licence. The Liquor Board approved Sunday sales for that whole class of business, but altered their published minutes to say they hadn’t. The board membership was changed, an audit was carried out, and the doctoring of the records etc. came out. The new board was obliged to issue the licence. At the same time, other gas station and convenience store owners said ‘well if they’re doing it we have to do it’.
So we went from 10am-7pm Mon-Sat, to 10am-10pm Mon-Sat and 1-7pm Sun. This all happened from 2013-2017.
You can still see evidence of how we used to have a hesitation and stigma around alcohol by the fact that sales are illegal on Election Day from 7am-7pm.
So, no, we don’t turn a blind eye to alcohol sales 7 days a week. We didn’t have that for the first 25 years of my life. We dealt with the inconvenience of not having the option for decades, and listened to tourists complain about it too. We made a change. It’s still limited scope. Just like in the UK, shops can be open for 6 hours from 10am-6pm, their choice which 6 hours.
At least the UK applies that to much more forms of Sunday trading. I think if you asked people here, they would rather have everything else open on Sunday and need to buy their booze the other six days of the week. But it turns out the only businesses that want to open on Sunday are the ones that can sell alcohol. Small businesses with more coolers than employees on duty. So we couldn’t get Sunday trading for other stuff because every business owner said ‘if you let my competitiors open they will and I will have to as well’. And they are lazy and like to keep Sunday for enjoying their money.
So there we are.
All that for no point. Even if was only allowed one hour a day, there’s no cap on the amount an adult to buy, allowing the deaths we see on the road and overdoses (which you can’t on weed).
The claim was “lazy stoners”
Show me one person who becomes more productive while drunk.
All of unna old farts just need to go retire from politics and stop controlling other people’s lives like hypocrites. I’m medically prescribed ganja and have a degree, so as a highly productive employee you can’t do shxt to me about consumption at home.
Legalize it.
Agree, but you need to spell it correctly: Legalise.
Now, about the “old farts” thing. Listen, Skippy, we were discovering the medical benefits of ganja before you were born. Some of us, like myself, were utilising the scientific method to perform repeatable experiments upon the purity and safety in the human physiology.
Spoiler: Ganja is safe and even vastly beneficial to the human physiology. It is safer to ingest the oils than to smoke it.
Someone didn’t tell them there’s already weed on the island???
More like mouldy wacky from Jam.
legalise and quash the criminal records for simple possession, too many kids and young adults with criminal records preventing them from going overseas for an education.
As for driving stoned, you are still 13 times more likely to crash if you are texting and driving like half the drivers on the roads, than if you are stoned.
If people do not want criminal records they should refrain from committing crimes.
Consumption and simple possession should not be a crime.
Yes they should. But more importantly, they are. And you knew that before you consumed or possessed. That would make you a criminal and subject to having a criminal record. Simple.
Using your phone while driving is also a crime, but everyone does it and the police don’t care.
enforce some laws don’t enforce others, Justice is crying
I am not arguing that banning texting while driving should be legal “ because it is so common “. In fact, it is so common because a very sensible law is not being routinely and effectively enforced.
The Police and their haphazard selective enforcement are the problem.
Well son, it is.
It’s true.
THC from weed was also present in 80% of DUI blood tests from fatalities reviewed by NHTSA. It’s s contributing factor in many road fatalities. There is no permissible amount of high driving in the Cayman Islands, because weed is illegal.
you do know it stays in your system for many days, even weeks after consuming it right?
Wow. So 80% of drivers smoke weed? BULLSHIT!!
Weed is illegal, no matter how many days after. The RCIPS should be doing a lot of things, including drug testing motorists that present cause.
Can be months depending on frequency, potency, length of use, type of cannabis product, body chemistry, body fat percentage, etc.
Your level of declarative assertation requires a credible citation. You can’t just cite a made-up statistic and expect everyone to just parrot your view.
Give us the juice.
How stoned?
And would you let your kids on a plane with a pilot smoking weed? ‘Cos it’s safe, right?
And my kids have to cross the road in front of your car…
You have already screwed your own cerebral cortex. You have no right to screw with the integrity of other people’s skulls.