Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter

IT IS not unusual to smell ganja smoke at some music shows, or even to see persons smoking spliffs at political rallies.

But now, concern is being expressed that some prisoners who are taken to the Supreme Court building, King Street, downtown Kingston, for trial in the Home Circuit Court or the Gun Court, smoke ganja regularly in the cell and holding area downstairs.

"That must be the greatest manifestation of the breakdown of law and order in this country - prisoners smoking ganja in the nation's Supreme Court building," said one lawyer.

Jurors, lawyers and other persons doing business on the Supreme Court building have increasingly been complaining about prisoners smoking ganja in the cell. Some say they have seen the prisoners in the act - and not even hiding it either! Others complain that the smoke from the ganja spliff assault their nostrils daily as they walk some corridors of the building.