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Jamaica faces marijuana shortage as farmers struggle
Read full article: Jamaica faces marijuana shortage as farmers struggleHeavy rains followed by an extended drought, an increase in local consumption and a drop in the number of marijuana farmers have caused a shortage in the island’s famed but largely illegal market that experts say is the worst they’ve seen. “It’s a cultural embarrassment,” said Triston Thompson, chief opportunity explorer for Tacaya, a consulting and brokerage firm for the country's nascent legal cannabis industry. Jamaica, which foreigners have long associated with pot, reggae and Rastafarians, authorized a regulated medical marijuana industry and decriminalized small amounts of weed in 2015. “It destroyed everything,” said Daneyel Bozra, who grows marijuana in the southwest part of Jamaica, in a historical village called Accompong founded by escaped 18th-century slaves known as Maroons. But farmers and activists say weed sold via legal dispensaries known as herb houses is out of reach for many given that it still costs five to 10 times more than pot on the street.
Video: Drunk Florida man drives lawn mower on highway, deputies say
Read full article: Video: Drunk Florida man drives lawn mower on highway, deputies sayMARION COUNTY, Fla. A Florida man who admittedly had maybe a little too much to drink was caught on dash camera video riding a lawn mower on a highway, according to the Marion County Sheriffs Office. Deputies said they caught Paul Burke, of Fort McCoy, driving the riding lawn mower in the middle of Highway 316 on Wednesday. Deputies said Burke has three prior DUI convictions and as a result, does not have a valid drivers license. Driving a lawnmower in the middle of a road where the speed limit is 55mph is dangerous and illegal, deputies wrote in a Facebook post. Add being drunk into the mix, it can be come fatal.Burke was arrested on a DUI charge.