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Social Justice Bermuda (SJB) is a collective of Bermudians who are inspired by the global Black Lives Matter Movement and the way that communities around the world are standing together to tackle and dismantle oppressive systems of injustice and raci...

A man was arrested after a passing police patrol saw suspected cannabis plants in flowerpots outside a house. The officers were on mobile patrol when they saw the plants at a home on Pearman’s Hill West, Warwick, at about 9.20am on Wednesday. A Bermu...

Many black people will be frozen out of legal cannabis use because they will be unable to afford an annual $750 licence fee for personal cultivation, campaigners warned yesterday. Social Justice Bermuda said the fee could keep the illegal cannabis ma...

Senators have approved moves to modernise jury selection and allow some cannabis convictions to be wiped clean. The Criminal Code Amendment No 2 Act 2020 and the Expungement of Convictions Act 2020 won support in the Upper House. Kathy Lynn Simmons,...

Legislation to allow cannabis convictions to be removed from the record was approved in the House of Assembly on Friday. But Ministers warned that the amendments would probably not remove Bermudians from the United States “stop list”, which makes it ...

A highly regarded British think-tank focused on reforming drug laws thinks Canada’s legalisation and regulation of cannabis has gone well. Transform Drug Policy Foundation has been monitoring Canadian reform efforts for some time, and advised the Can...

Legislation to wipe convictions for possession of small amounts cannabis off the records was tabled in the House of Assembly. The Expungement of Convictions Act was designed to remove the stigma of past convictions for people who were caught with sma...

Pain is defined as an unpleasant feeling that is conveyed to the brain by sensory nerves. Discomfort signals usually represent an alarm of disease and the symptom announces that something is not right with our bodies. Unfortunately, pain causes are n...

In response to the Proposed Cannabis (Licensing and Regulation) Act 2020, the Inter-Agency Committee for Children and Families, a network of social and human service providers and non-profit organisations, reached out to its membership to solicit fee...

A proposed restriction on cannabis cultivation sites to outside a half-mile exclusion zone around churches and schools may be dropped, the Government signalled tonight. The announcement came after officials launched an online public consultation on d...

The legalisation of cannabis in Bermuda will not threaten its privileged United States Customs pre-clearance system at the airport, the US Consul-General has promised. But Constance Dierman warned that travel restrictions to the US for people with ca...

Liberalising Bermuda’s cannabis laws is overdue. This is undeniable in a society — and a world — awakening to an inflection point in discussions about systemic racialised disparities and inequities within institutions, laws and policies. Bermuda’s r...