In the Caribbean, Jamaica is easily the biggest producer of marijuana so t his event has widespread consequences that go beyond the borders of the Jamaican islands. Marijuana is one of the island nation’s most important crops as it provides not only revenue, but has recreational uses as well. It is a shame that this transpired in the way it did, but it may just raise awareness about a struggling Jamaica, making it so something so horrible can never happen again. Whenever someone messes with an important crop grown by a country like in this incident, there is no telling what someone might do in retaliation. Jamaica was undoubtedly wronged recently by their own police force. If things continue down this road, dark times may lie ahead. In a nutshell, the Jamaican police burned up about 15,000 pounds of marijuana along with seventy five pounds of hash. Even though this is all the police force did themselves, the damages they caused were much greater. When one gets down to the facts, the real underlying problem is the irrational illegality of marijuana in the world today. Even though some states and countries are beginning to come around, a large part of the world is still clearly opposed to marijuana. Perhaps if things were a little different, such injustices wouldn’t be happening all over the world every day. Poor Jamaica is caught...