It has been over 17 months since the government sent a bill to amend the narcotics laws for the removal of custodial sentences for the possession of less than 30 grammes of cannabis to a special parliamentary committee for further consultation.
With its members continuing to be arrested in the intervening period, the Guyana Rastafarian Council remains concern at the pace of the work to make the proposed amendment to the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act a reality.
Parliament is due to go into recess in the second week in August.