June 4, 2014

Dear Sir,

I think it is not undoubtedly clear why Opposition Leader Marc Bean has yet to show us a drug test. He clearly is a cannabis user as he finds it reasonable to give it to a child. I am not going to sit here and debate on whether or not cannabis should be legal. I will say these things:

1. Whether you want it legal or not, it currently its usage is not permitted and young Bermudians have quite harshly been put on the US Stop List for travel because of small amounts of this. So I find it highly hypocritical a politician has the right to flaunt such behaviours without reprimand. The law is the law, and I am sorry but although again I won’t debate if the law should go all together, I will say banning its use isn’t unjustly harsh — just the punishments for small usage are. As a politician he needs to be abiding by the law as such.

2. Even if it was legal, so are cigarettes, alcohol, and even caffeine via coffee etc. Would you be giving a three year old any of the above as an intelligent parent? I really do not think so. I really do not think a three year old needs to be having such in their small body.

3. Please do not conduct yourself as if you are a scientist. Making statements like “one cup of ganja tea” cured my toddler of asthma is totally ridiculous to claim. That’s like me saying because one time I asked for it to rain on Valentine’s Day because I was single and it did; therefore I have power over mother nature. “Theories” as wild as they might be need to be repeated over and over in the same circumstances to get a valid conclusion. Did you never participate in a science fair?

4. We now have foreign news agencies picking up on the story as if Bermuda was not mocked and laughed at enough via other media because of the Uighurs nonsense. So Marc Bean will you not ask yourself to be censured as you have called on the One Bermuda Alliance? I really think you are the one that needs to do so as every time that mouth opens people cringe and I think Bermuda has enough bad press.

ROBERT DAVIES JR