Alleged ganja farmer to change attorney
BVI News correspondent - Thursday, February 7th, 2013 at 3:34 PM
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Bakembe George, one of the men accused of cultivating cannabis on Virgin Gorda, will be getting a new attorney the court heard today when the matter came up for report.
When the case was called attorney Patricia Archibald-Bowers who was representing George indicated that the defendant told her that he is seeking new counsel. The attorney therefore requested that she be removed from the record as George’s counsel, and asked that the matter be adjourned.
George was charged with Lenn Leonard in December 2011 after Virgin Gorda police were informed that there was a suspected cannabis plantation in the area of Taylor Bay adjacent to the Virgin Gorda Airport. When the police went to investigate they saw Leonard and George and another unidentified person on the plantation harvesting cannabis plants.
When the police sought to apprehend the men, they made good their escape into nearby bushes with the cannabis plants in tow. The police however found some cannabis plants which were hidden behind some rocks in the area where the men ran.
The police returned to the plantation and retrieved about 3,479 plants ranging from seedling to mature plants, almost six feet in height. Police processed the scene and the plants were taken into custody.
On December 30, 2011, Leonard and George were accosted and arrested by police. George was granted bail by the magistrate in the sum of $100,000 signed with two sureties and Leonard was placed on remand as he committed this offense while on bail for possession of almost 4000g of cannabis and a firearm.
The case was adjourned to February 21.
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Move to Colorado or California or even Canada & soon USVI & grow it in peace but it is illegal here still………..remember we only just got rid of the rasta & hippie law LOL
I Think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug.Marijuana is an herd and a flower.God put it there.If he put it there and he wants it to grow, what gives the governments the right to say God is wrong?
Annual Causes of Deaths in a big country
Tobacco: 435,000
Alcohol: 85,000
Car Accidents: 26,347
Prescription Drugs: 32,000
Suicide: 30,622
Marijuana: 0
The real reason marijuana is illegal is because the powers that be do not want you to freely grow your own sustainable resource for medicine, food, oil, textiles, paper products, building materials and entertainment. They want you dependent on their pharmaceuticals, their alcohol, their cigarettes, oil, food, clothing and entertainment. The “War on marijuana” results in the arrest of over 1 million non voilent people each year around the world.peoples tax money is spent on maintaining and expanding the prison infrastructure required to continue these policies . The growing, possession, and ingestion of all plants should be legal. It is that simple.
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