| And while tonight "weedists" all over Belize are celebrating, evangelical church leaders are lamenting, and we'll have their points and counterpoints for you later on in the news. But for the Barrow Administration, they are taking it as a progressive and worthwhile step forward. The Prime Minister explained:...
Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow - Prime Minister
"I feel both as a matter of conviction that it is something good to do, but also that as a society as a whole will support it."
Jules Vasquez - Reporter
"Sir, the most cynical interpretation will be that, well, there is an election in a few months and the UDP has had this on the backburner for some while but your government brought it to the front burner to give it a little boost for the elections since you don't have a lot of money to spread around."
Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow- Prime Minister
"No, I don't think it's that sort of an issue that will make any material difference to the election. Certainly, that was not the reason."
Jules Vasquez - Reporter
"Will there be a public awareness campaign to sort of tell people, it's not to say you can smoke marijuana publicly."
Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow - Prime Minister
"There will have to be because I gather that already on the talk shows the level of, not ignorance, perhaps, wishful thinking is amazing so we will have to let people know that basically, we are creeping before we walk and so it doesn't go nearly as far as I am sure a lot of people will like. So you are perfectly correct there will have to be some sort of education campaign."
Later on we'll have the views of the Council of Churches, and the National Evangelical Association, and well as weed advocate Pulu Lightburn plus you'll see the Prime Minister and Plus TV's Luis Wade clash on the subject.
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