Speeches by The Hon. Michael Weeks JP, MP

19 Feb 2021 House of Assembly

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—many others — Hon. Kathy Lynn Simmons: Mr. Speaker, I cannot hear the Member.

19 Feb 2021 House of Assembly

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—in my constituency there is a segment that always said, Well—

19 Feb 2021 House of Assembly

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I don’t think so. Can you hear me now, Attorney General? Hon. Kathy Lynn Simmons: Yes, I can.

19 Feb 2021 House of Assembly

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Okay. I will just sit a little closer to the . . . Can you hear me, Mr. Speaker?

19 Feb 2021 House of Assembly

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Okay. Thank you. So I was saying that what happens is that not only on the doorstep but at a lot of functions, people are challenging me and saying, Well, when is the PLP going to come good on their promise? So I am actually excited about the good— Bermuda House of Assembly [Audio skip] Hon. Derrick V. Burgess, Sr.: …

19 Feb 2021 House of Assembly

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—done at the start, Mr. Speaker. [Crosstalk]

19 Feb 2021 House of Assembly

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Okay, Mr. Speaker. I am not going to be long. But I am just saying that we are in a conservative—

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and I know —

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Okay. That sounds better?

19 Feb 2021 House of Assembly

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All right. I will start again by saying that we have deli vered on our long- overdue promise. So this is going to allow us, a segment of our society, mainly Black men, Mr. Speaker, not to be criminalised by association with cannabis. But I must put things in a historical context, Mr. Speaker. I have done my research. I …

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[INAUDIBLE]. The —

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19 Feb 2021 House of Assembly

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Pardon? Can you hear me? Yes. Okay. When the powers that be, Mr. Speaker, made marijuana illegal, it was not because of medi cinal purposes, it was strictly to try to control that market. When we fast -forward 40, 50 years from the 1920s, into the 1970s when we finally had a Bill, the Misuse of Drugs Act in 1972, …

19 Feb 2021 House of Assembly

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[INAUDIBLE] nonsense for those who are naysaying— Yes, sir? Am I gone again?

19 Feb 2021 House of Assembly

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Okay. Well, Mr. Speaker, let me see if I move to another location. I will stop now and let someone else [speak] and I will come back.

11 Dec 2020 House of Assembly

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Yes, Mr. Speaker.

11 Dec 2020 House of Assembly

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Good afternoon. I would like to start off by thanking the Minister for bringing this legislation and I am speaking wearing a different hat right now, Mr. Speaker, I am currently the Chairman of the Water Safety Council.

11 Dec 2020 House of Assembly

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And I want to commend the Minister because, as much as we talk about bringing this legislation into the 21 st century, the Minister knows that my passion is water safety in and around our waters when it comes to our residents’ everyday living. We know that most of our activity is during the summer months, but every holiday the …

11 Dec 2020 House of Assembly

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Yes, Mr. Speaker.

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Mr. Speaker, thank you. I do not agree with the previous Member because I personally feel that the Minister and the team that have been labouring to bring this legislation into the 21 st century have started out on a good foot. Now, to think that we are going to please everybody one time, no, I think that is unrealistic. …