The push to change Jamaica's cannabis laws gained momentum in 2014 after a young man died in custody following his arrest for possessing a joint. That year 15,000 people were arrested for cannabis possession, a quarter of all court cases concerned cannabis, and arrests and prosecutions were estimated to cost 64 million US dollars a year. The Ganja Law Reform Coalition, growers' associations, Rastafari and Maroon communities backed reform, which followed in 2015.[1]
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