Jackass sey di worl' no level. Jackass sey dem gwaan like sey a ongkly poor people an dem pickney smoke weed.

One spliff. In the lofty eyes of the supposed 'high society' (well, somewhere far removed is a better term), one spliff is such a horrible fall in moral standards. You can run a bank and fleece the depositors of their money, you can import cars that have as much durability as a rubber band (of any kind) that has been stretched out too often and sell them to the unsuspecting public, you can break the traffic laws and endanger people by racing on Hope Road in the nights and it is fine with the society folk.

But the sight of a youth on the roadside playing with his hand middle just makes them think that the society is going to the dogs. And not just any kind of dog, but some real indeterminate breed, stiff tail, bark after the bark of other mongrels way cross yonder all night, one side of the face different from the other kind of mongrel.

Grave threat

With all the charges for possession of weed, all couple ounces of it, that is supposed to be some grave threat to the security of the nation, it is never the sons and daughters of the rich, or at least the educated, who get the 'fine and confine'. Sure, we know that the police turn a blind eye to weed smoking at concerts, but that is a matter of numbers rather than an 'ease up'. Because if they were to start arresting people for smoking weed at a major show, then chances are they would have to get a couple trucks and all the JUTC buses to take away the offenders, because there would be so many of them.

And there would almost certainly be a riot.

But despite the seriousness of the situation and sadness at the death of another human being, Jackass could not help but bust a small riot of a bray last Friday, when he read the subdeck on the front page of The Gleaner. Not the big headline about 'Killed over ganja', but the small one about 'feuding sons of high-society officials'. 'High society'? 'Ganja'? The Gleaner and not THE STAR? Now, that is a combination that makes Jackass go 'hee haw, now you see what me saw'.

The world is not level, but it has a way of showing that 'unlevelity' in some very public ways. Like that combination in the news paper last Friday.

Of course, there is a trial to go through and all that, but what is sure is that the son of a Supreme Court judge is dead and weed is apparently involved.

How ironic can you get, that one of the top persons in a system that gives people a criminal record for a plant that grows naturally is connected to smoking by the family tree?

And the man accused of trimming said family tree is himself connected to the highest seat of learning (well, reputedly anyway) in the region. Now that is 'higher' education.

Jackass sey di worl' no level. Jackass sey poor people pickney get charge fe weed regular, but when dem dead fi a draw a mosly Feds do de deed.