 Mr. Speaker, the journey to where we are at this point started a long time ago. Mr. Speaker, I just want to pay tribute and to, as I've done before, to pay tribute to the young men and some women who were prosecuted and jailed for the use of small quantities of alcohol. The number of young men I meet in my constituency and they say to me they have police records because they were caught in a stick of marijuana. Some others were jailed, etc. I think in paying tribute to all the partners, including Mr. Dikaris and the attorney, I think we should remember them and also pay some tribute to them for what they went through at that time. The journey to where we are today, and I know the members of the show there will one day try to chastise me when I stood in this honourable house and I decided and I told the honourable house that we were introducing legislation to decriminalize marijuana and also to expand some of the records of people who had convictions. For small communities of marijuana, I saw him very insent and he said I was not giving credit, credit was new Mr. Speaker. But he started that work, he started that work Mr. Speaker but there were reasons why he couldn't follow it through Mr. Speaker because what we were doing, we needed to have courage. Because it really is something that people don't understand Mr. Speaker. There is a particular pastor in a church who a friend of mine said to him that he wants to pray for me because I would introduce young people to smoking marijuana and cannabis. So there are a lot of people who still have that belief. So when we took that position, there wasn't a position to allow people to wantonly smoke in public etc. Because I always say to the guys that smoking in public is still an offence. Smoking marijuana in public is still an offence etc. I just want to urge to calm the expectations that are rising out of this cannabis situation. There are some people who believe that the expectations and the country's economy will change overnight and that is the way to go. It's a way to diversify the resources of the country but it's not a magic one. It will not overnight create economic growth and economic development. It will help, it will assist, structure, organize and I speak to my colleagues who in the countries they have gone that way and it's taking time. It's taking a lot of time. The returns take time Mr. Speaker. But there is one thing that we must deal with and it is something that really oaks me as Prime Minister. The double standards that exist as far as cannabis is concerned and as far as many other things are concerned including economic policy. Up to now proceeds from the sale of cannabis cannot go through the normal banking system. Up to today you can't go through the swift etc. You can't go through the system. They call it illegal. They say it's money launching etc. Up to today. But in cities, in some of the major countries, there are cannabis cafes, people go in and smoke and sell and trade and put the money in the same bank that they say we can't pass our money through if we sell it. It's a kind of hypocrisy that really oaks me and then you know in several other aspects of life. In sugar cane, in bananas, in tourism, in financial services, in citizens by the investment program, any economic venture that we seem to be going into that may cause us to have genuine independence, there is some pullback. There is a pushback. And sometimes you wonder really is a motive development or is a motive control. I would not like to go into at this moment but there are several things and that is why it is necessary that the people of the country get adequately educated so they can defend and they can protect the countries when these attacks come and when these situations arise. Apart from the politics, the red and yellow politics, there are several things that we need to stand up as a nation and fight for. We need to stand up as a nation and defend and protect Mr. Speaker because these islands are falling prey to circumstances that may lead us to a place where we do not want to go with Mr. Speaker. We speak about climate change and next week we are going to cut. Zee developed world made a pledge years ago to help these islands in terms of their adaptation Mr. Speaker. Years ago they made these pledges up to the day not a cent. Up to the not a cent they have not made these pledges and hurricanes and natural disasters affect us more than anything else. Up to today Mr. Speaker the adaptation pledges that they made to keep the temperature and the temperature increase to less than 1.5 degrees centigrade they have not made these pledges Mr. Speaker. But all kinds of control, all kinds of understanding to do is some of our own professionals, some of our own professionals get carried away and instead of defending they promote. Some of our own people stop defending and that is where sometimes I question a few things. We have not developed an alternative economic policy to deal with some of the issues that we have to deal with and that is because we have remained divided. We have not looked at our region starting from Cuba, Venezuela, Jamaica, Ghana, the wealth of resources that exist in that region. You can imagine if that region had a serious economic integration that would cause us to deal with our own development, how we would be, where we would be Mr. Speaker. But these are things that you have to think of but the reality is every day we are faced with higher unemployment, we are faced with climate change, things that we have no control over but we have to deal with it. Every morning I get up, I look at the weather forecast because these days there is no seasons, you know hurricane season. Every day the rain falls in the morning, the sun is bright, it's burning you, climate change, real, real. Then they talk about high indebtedness, all the debts, most of the debts we have incurred is because we have to rebuild after a natural disaster. Most of the debts that we have incurred is because of high indebtedness. And with that high indebtedness you must cut back on social policy. So Mr. Speaker it is really a situation where sometimes you feel like going round and round and round Mr. Speaker. Then you speak about implementation, rate of implementation. Then rate of implementation you have procurement policies. How can you increase the rate of implementation if your procurement policies are so tied, so tied by circumstances that are beyond us but we have to follow these procurement policies. Then so Mr. Speaker this bill is a step in the right direction but I'm not sure whether the powers that be and I'm not speaking about the local powers. The powers that be will allow us to have the benefits, the full benefits of a cannabis industry. I'm not sure, it concerns you Mr. Speaker because I see barriers set up in everything we do. In tourism you have, what do you call it? In tourism, the barriers, in tourism. When you see that you can't visit us again because of travel advisories. In tourism you have travel advisories. You know any time in financial services you have blacklisting. In CIP you have concerns about the shengen visa. Then in banking you have the risk. And Mr. Speaker is very clear, the fear of the risk. Banks are afraid to take action because they are afraid of the risk. And the risk means that your credit card becomes useless. Somebody said it was your party money but it becomes useless. You would not be able to use it Mr. Speaker. And there are some islands already where the government had to put money in a helicopter and carry it to my army, to the US to say. Because the country, there was the risk. These are things that the people of the country must be told about the risk and the pressure of being small, the pressure of being underdeveloped and the pressure of being another thing which I will not say. So Mr. Speaker, I support the minister, I support the panniers but I just want to temper expectations that that is the cure or for the solutions economic problems. Thank you Mr. Speaker.